Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. List of figures IX
4. List of tables XI
5. Abbreviations XIII
6. Part 1: Foundations
7. 1 Introduction 1
8. 2 Irish, Ireland, neoliberalism: Some background 18
9. Part 2: Overt and covert Irish-language policy post-2008
10. 3 Official Irish-language policy post-2008 41
11. 4 Irish-language institutions: Covert policy and state retrenchment 62
12. 5 Austerity and Irish-language media 79
13. 6 Neoliberalism and language policy in public and private spheres: Structural impediments 95
14. Part 3: Neoliberalism and the Gaeltacht – an ethnographic study
15. 7 Quantitative background to Part 3 115
16. 8 Effects of the post-2008 crisis on the Gaeltacht labour market 125
17. 9 Migration 144
18. 10 Tourism and the Gaeltacht post-2008: Uneasy bedfellows 158
19. 11 Community responses to austerity 177
20. 12 Cuts to other community projects 195
21. 13 Further observations on language use 204
22. Part 4: Conclusion
23. 14 Summary and conclusion 221
24. Bibliography 239
25. Index 285