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A trifling matter? Names in Irish on carts: the Dublin castle files

Phelan, Mary orcid logoORCID: 0000-0003-3403-9563 (2022) A trifling matter? Names in Irish on carts: the Dublin castle files. Studia Hibernica, 48 (1). pp. 103-127. ISSN 0081-6477

Abstract
At the beginning of the twentieth century, as the Irish language revival movement gathered pace, Conradh na Gaeilge encouraged those who were keen to promote the language to use the Irish version of their names as much as possible, including painting their name and address in Irish on carts, and a number of prosecutions were taken under the Summary Jurisdiction (Ireland) Act 1851. Most famously, Patrick Pearse represented Niall Mac Giolla Bhrighde in 1905 in a case stated to the court of King’s Bench. Pearse went on to represent Domhnall Ua Buachalla in a similar but less well known case the following year. Drawing on files from the Chief Secretary’s Office in Dublin Castle and digitised contemporaneous newspaper reports, this article provides an overview of the names in Irish on carts cases, which began in 1893, peaked in 1905 and died off after 1906, and finds that post-partition there were at least three similar prosecutions in Northern Ireland.
Metadata
Item Type:Article (Published)
Refereed:Yes
Uncontrolled Keywords:Irish history; Niall Mac Giolla Bhrighde; Patrick Pearse; Domhnall Ua Buachalla; Conradh na Gaeilge; Chief Secretary's Office; Douglas Hyde; Gaelic League; Richard Robert Cherry
Subjects:Humanities > History
Humanities > Irish language
DCU Faculties and Centres:DCU Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Humanities and Social Science > School of Applied Language and Intercultural Studies
Research Initiatives and Centres > Centre for Translation and Textual Studies (CTTS)
Publisher:Liverpool University Press
Official URL:https://doi.org/10.3828/sh.2022.5
Copyright Information:© 2022 The Author.
ID Code:29171
Deposited On:31 Oct 2023 10:25 by Mary Phelan . Last Modified 31 Oct 2023 12:41
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