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The Irish Language Under the Penal Laws: Forbidden Tongue
In Episode 133 of The History of Ireland, Lucas and Luna explore the fate of the Irish language under the Penal Laws. They trace how the 17th-century statutes that stripped Catholics of rights also targeted their speech, driving Irish underground into hedge schools and the private sphere. The conversation covers the role of poets like Aodhagán Ó Rathaille and Seamus Dall Mac Cuarta, the shift from bardic to folk poetry, and the survival of Irish among the poor while the Anglo-Irish elite adopted English. Lucas explains how the 18th-century 'Celtic Renaissance' paradoxically revived…
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