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Building a nation: an examination of the Irish Gaeltacht Commission Report of 1926
Ist Teil von
Journal of historical geography, 1993-04, Vol.19 (2), p.157-168
Ort / Verlag
London: Elsevier Ltd
Erscheinungsjahr
1993
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Elsevier Journal Backfiles on ScienceDirect (DFG Nationallizenzen)
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Studies of nationalism and nation-building have emphasized the importance of language in defining cultural identity. This paper explores how the Irish language in the context of the Irish Free State was placed in a position of cultural importance but the region in which the language was most alive was economically neglected. Whilst the west of Ireland was represented as the most quintessentially Gaelic part of the independent state, an image that was bolstered both by academic, quasi-academic writers and by politicians; the economic policy of the Irish Free State ignored the clear spatial variations in economic development that characterized the new state. While the eastern part of the state was comparatively prosperous, the western regions presented the state with a regional economic problem. This problem was identified through a government commissioned report designed to make recommendations for the maintenance of the Gaeltacht (Irish-speaking district) but the state refused to adopt a regionally based economic strategy that would enhance the continued viability of the Gaeltacht regions. As a consequence, the state adopted a paradoxical cultural policy that separated its success from the economic circumstances prevailing in the Gaeltacht and ensured the declined of Irish-speakers in this part of the state.