An exploration of the role of language attitudes and ideologies in predicting the survival
prospects of a minority language. The author examines this role through a cross-national
comparative analysis of Irish in the Republic of Ireland and Galician in the Autonomous
Community of Galicia in north-west Spain.

This short but ambitious book forms part of the Palgrave Studies in Minority Languages and
Communities. Although the title suggests that it is Europe or even perhaps the European
Union that provides the overall context for the study and analysis of supranational factors in
the development and management of revitalization, it is the contrasting national contexts that
are most to the fore. This comparative analysis of the Irish and Galician languages is framed
by the perspective that the impact on language maintenance and shift of macro-social …