Patrick Hillery by John Walsh
This is a major biography on a man who comes forward with a personal record of Irish cultural and political life through his long career. These accounts will astound friends and critics alike. It is an outstanding and often controversial work by an up and-coming Irish scholar.Bernadette O'Rourke is Professor of Sociolinguistics and Hispanic Studies at the University of Glasgow. She is author of Irish and Galician in the European Context (Palgrave 2011) and co-author (with Gabrielle Hogan-Brun) of the Palgrave Handbook of Minority Languages and Communities (2019). She was Chair of COST Action on New Speakers in a Multilingual Europe (2013-17). She is a Fellow of the Smithsonian Institute for Folklife on the Sustaining Minoritized Languages in Europe (SMiLE) project (2018-present).
John Walsh is a Senior Lecturer in Irish in the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures at the National University of Ireland, Galway. He is author of several publications in Irish and English about Irish language policy, Irish language media, Irish and socioeconomic development and new speakers of Irish. John was a leading member of the COST Action on New Speakers in a Multilingual Europe (2013-17) and jointly led two Working Groups (on new speakers and indigenous minority languages and on new speakers and subjectivities).
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| ISBN 13 | 9781848400092 |
| ISBN 10 | 1848400098 |
| Title | Patrick Hillery |
| Author | John Walsh |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | New Island Books |
| Year published | 2008-09-30 |
| Number of pages | 608 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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