Bibliography

Aidan
Doyle
s. xx–xxi

7 publications between 1999 and 2020 indexed
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Works authored

Doyle, Aidan, A history of the Irish language from the Norman invasion to independence, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015.

Works edited

Sumner, Natasha, and Aidan Doyle (eds), North American Gaels: speech, story, and song in the diaspora, Montreal & Kingston, London, Chicago: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2020.  
abstract:

A mere 150 years ago Scottish Gaelic was the third most widely spoken language in Canada, and Irish was spoken by hundreds of thousands of people in the United States. A new awareness of the large North American Gaelic diaspora, long overlooked by historians, folklorists, and literary scholars, has emerged in recent decades.


North American Gaels, representing the first tandem exploration of these related migrant ethnic groups, examines the myriad ways Gaelic-speaking immigrants from marginalized societies have negotiated cultural spaces for themselves in their new homeland. In the macaronic verses of a Newfoundland fisherman, the pointed addresses of an Ontario essayist, the compositions of a Montana miner, and lively exchanges in newspapers from Cape Breton to Boston to New York, these groups proclaim their presence in vibrant traditional modes fluently adapted to suit North American climes. Through careful investigations of this diasporic Gaelic narrative and its context, from the mid-eighteenth century to the twenty-first, the book treats such overarching themes as the sociolinguistics of minority languages, connection with one's former home, and the tension between the desire for modernity and the enduring influence of tradition.


Staking a claim for Gaelic studies on this continent, North American Gaels shines new light on the ways Irish and Scottish Gaels have left an enduring mark through speech, story, and song.

abstract:

A mere 150 years ago Scottish Gaelic was the third most widely spoken language in Canada, and Irish was spoken by hundreds of thousands of people in the United States. A new awareness of the large North American Gaelic diaspora, long overlooked by historians, folklorists, and literary scholars, has emerged in recent decades.


North American Gaels, representing the first tandem exploration of these related migrant ethnic groups, examines the myriad ways Gaelic-speaking immigrants from marginalized societies have negotiated cultural spaces for themselves in their new homeland. In the macaronic verses of a Newfoundland fisherman, the pointed addresses of an Ontario essayist, the compositions of a Montana miner, and lively exchanges in newspapers from Cape Breton to Boston to New York, these groups proclaim their presence in vibrant traditional modes fluently adapted to suit North American climes. Through careful investigations of this diasporic Gaelic narrative and its context, from the mid-eighteenth century to the twenty-first, the book treats such overarching themes as the sociolinguistics of minority languages, connection with one's former home, and the tension between the desire for modernity and the enduring influence of tradition.


Staking a claim for Gaelic studies on this continent, North American Gaels shines new light on the ways Irish and Scottish Gaels have left an enduring mark through speech, story, and song.

Murray, Kevin, and Aidan Doyle (eds), In dialogue with the Agallamh: essays in honour of Seán Ó Coileáin, Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2014.

Contributions to journals

Doyle, Aidan, “The ‘decline’ of the Irish language in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries: a new interpretation [Review article]”, Studia Hibernica 41 (2015): 165–176.
Doyle, Aidan, “Forainmneacha agus na foirmeacha táite den mbriathar”, Ériu 53 (2003): 61–90.  
abstract:
This article explores the interrelation of the synthetic and analytic verbal forms of modern Irish. The theoretical framework is that of the Minimalist Program of the 1990s, which relies heavily on the existence of functional categories like Tense and Agreement. The analysis utilizes the notion that pronominals may be either covert or overt, and that there is an important distinction between weak and strong pronominal forms. The main focus is on Irish, with the discussion covering a broad range of dialectal material. Examples are frequently drawn from a number of other languages in order to underline the universal nature of the conclusions drawn.
abstract:
This article explores the interrelation of the synthetic and analytic verbal forms of modern Irish. The theoretical framework is that of the Minimalist Program of the 1990s, which relies heavily on the existence of functional categories like Tense and Agreement. The analysis utilizes the notion that pronominals may be either covert or overt, and that there is an important distinction between weak and strong pronominal forms. The main focus is on Irish, with the discussion covering a broad range of dialectal material. Examples are frequently drawn from a number of other languages in order to underline the universal nature of the conclusions drawn.
Doyle, Aidan, “ [Review of: Genee, Inge, “Sentential complementation in a functional grammar of Irish”, LOT Dissertation Series, 7, PhD thesis, Holland Academic Graphics, 1998.]”, Lingua 109:1 (August, 1999): 69–72.

Contributions to edited collections or authored works

Doyle, Aidan, “The king is dead: unaccusative verbs in Irish”, in: John Carey, Máire Herbert, and Kevin Murray (eds), Cín Chille Cúile: texts, saints and places. Essays in honour of Pádraig Ó Riain, 9, Aberystwyth: Celtic Studies Publications, 2004. 105–115.