Foreign Tongues

Victorian Language Learning and Modern Ireland

Phyllis Gaffney

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University College Dublin Press
29 May 2024

Language: history & general works

The first historical overview of the study of languages in Ireland from an expert in the area.

How history shifts languages and languages in turn shape history is a deep-rooted, dynamic process manifest in Victorian Ireland. In Foreign Tongues, Phyllis Gaffney sheds new light on this period of Irish history, exploring how continental influences that predated the Penal Laws were reinvigorated in the wake of the French Revolution. An influx of foreign teachers and religious orders created institutions for an emerging élite, and University education expanded. At the same time, civil service reforms opened careers across the British Empire to graduates from all religions. The result is that Ireland's Victorian colleges embraced language study—ancient and modern, Irish and European—more eagerly than their British counterparts.

An adaptive, fast-changing academic landscape laid the groundwork for today's Ireland—culturally confident, open to Europe and the world—while the dramatic rise of the Gaelic League forged a bond between language, education, and politics with pervasive effects on Irish identities in the twentieth century. None of that was plain sailing. Gaffney's profiles of individual professors reveal pioneering scholarship, precarious careers, sudden scandals, and denunciations and dismissals linked to local conflicts and foreign wars. On the positive side, the advance of women's education cleared the path for a cohort of notable female professors across modern languages.

This wide-ranging, detailed study draws on multiple sources to cast a fresh light on aspects of Irish history, viewed through the complex lens of language education.

By: Phyllis Gaffney
Imprint: University College Dublin Press
Country of Publication: Ireland
Dimensions: Height: 246mm, Width: 180mm,
ISBN: 9781739086312
ISBN 10: 1739086317
Pages: 250
Publication Date: 29 May 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Phyllis Gaffney’s research interests include Franco-Irish relations, literary translation and Samuel Beckett. She started as a medievalist, then taught every century of French literature at Carysfort College of Education and later at University College Dublin. Her previous books are Healing Amid the Ruins: The Irish Hospital at Saint- Lô 1945–46 (1999), Constructions of Childhood and Youth in Old French Narrative (2011), and two co-edited essay collections, Reverberations: Staging Relations in French Since 1500 (2008), and The Medieval Imagination: Mirabile Dictu (2012).

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Foreign Tongues

Victorian Language Learning and Modern Ireland

Phyllis Gaffney

$57.95

Paperback

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