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Irish Language Loss And Restoration
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Irish Language Loss And Restoration

For St. Patrick's Day, Nicholas Wolf, discusses the decades-long effort to restore the Irish language after it rapidly declined under British colonial rule.

The Brian Lehrer Show

March 17, 202613m 27s

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Show Notes

For St. Patrick's Day, Nicholas Wolf, associate director for research and publishing initiatives at Glucksman Ireland House, NYU's study of Irish and Irish America, discusses the decades-long effort to restore the Irish language after it rapidly declined under British colonial rule. 

 

Photo: Bilingual Irish-English street name sign, named after St. Patrick, in which 'Port' is the Irish for 'Quay'. Credit: Mucklagh/Wikimedia Commons

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