RACE, LANGUAGE, AND SOCIAL CLASS IN SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY IRELAND
Dr. Lawrence P. MORRIS (Albright College, Reading, USA)
Abstract / résumé
Language has long been recognized as a major factor in determining societal and personal constructs of race and identity. Within an Irish context, Aodhagân Ô Rathaille used language as a badge of political allegiance when he used the term fuireann an Bhéarla (the English-speaking community) to denote the opponents of the old
