There was a historical and political movement in order to give to Irish language its power, specially after Republic of Ireland's Independence in 1923. This struggle to give power to their own language was a way of establishing their national identity. Below you can find pages with some information on this historical happening. This Revival includes not just a Language one, but also a musical revival, a literature revival, a cultural revival...
http://anghaeltacht.net/ctg/altveritas.htm
This is a bit long, but a good and simple text to read on the Revival of Irish, talking about historical and political facts of the period.
http://www.multilingual-matters.net/cils/002/0223/cils0020223.pdf
I found this a good article on the subject, a bit too dense maybe, specially because deals with other themes. But interesting anyway.
http://www.ireland-information.com/reference/revival.html
This article concentrates on the Irish Literature Revival, but it is also connected to language somehow.
http://www.ucc.ie/en/ace/Publications/DocumentFile,19893,en.pdf
This link has some figures on the Revival of Irish, how people in Ireland reacted to this, and how it is being assimilated.
http://www.visitireland.com/aboutireland/gaelicrevival.asp
This is a brief and simple explanation of the historical motivations and immediate consequences of the Revival of Irish Gaelic.
http://anghaeltacht.net/ctg/altveritas.htm
This is a bit long, but a good and simple text to read on the Revival of Irish, talking about historical and political facts of the period.
http://www.multilingual-matters.net/cils/002/0223/cils0020223.pdf
I found this a good article on the subject, a bit too dense maybe, specially because deals with other themes. But interesting anyway.
http://www.ireland-information.com/reference/revival.html
This article concentrates on the Irish Literature Revival, but it is also connected to language somehow.
http://www.ucc.ie/en/ace/Publications/DocumentFile,19893,en.pdf
This link has some figures on the Revival of Irish, how people in Ireland reacted to this, and how it is being assimilated.
http://www.visitireland.com/aboutireland/gaelicrevival.asp
This is a brief and simple explanation of the historical motivations and immediate consequences of the Revival of Irish Gaelic.
This Gaelic League (Conradh na Gaeilge in Irish) is an organization dedicated to keep the Irish Language spoken in Ireland.
Another short explanation about the Gaelic League, from some other source that not Wikipedia.
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