In Northern Ireland, a once seemingly intractable conflict is in a state of transformation. Lee
A. Smithey offers a grassroots view of that transformation, drawing on interviews …

This inter-disciplinary book is the first in an Irish context to address issues connected with
the 'super-diversifying'of language and society engendered by recent and historical …

The sociologist Ulrich Beck distinguishes three stages of development of society: pre-
industrial or pre-modernity, industrial or modernity, and what he terms the 'risk society'(Beck …

Drawing on ethno-anthropological fieldwork, this book considers issues of identity and
belonging in Europe from a consciously emic perspective. The book explores issues such as …

In the 1990s, Ulster-Scots language and culture was mobilized by some Ulster unionists in
Northern Ireland as a badge of their cultural identity. The Ulster-Scots language and culture …

From an interdisciplinary perspective based primarily on European ethnology and political
economy, this book explores issues and concepts concerning the link between culture and …

This book tells the dramatic and often surprising story of the learning of the Irish language by
Irish Republican prisoners held in the infamous H-block cells during the bloody political …

When the I rish F ree S tate was founded in 1922, the I rish language was a substantial
feature of the politics that led up to this event. Subsequently the language was recognised …

In 1999, devolved governance was established in Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland
which altered the contours of language recognition in the United Kingdom. Whilst much …

This article discusses Loyalist identity formation in Ulster, as Unionists and Loyalists strive to
reconcile with or, conversely, distance themselves from the fundamental political changes …