Irish-Speaking in the Pre-Famine Period: A Study Based on the 1911 Census Data for People Born before 1851 and Still Alive in 1911

Garrett FitzGerald
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Abstract:The object of this paper is to provide detailed geographical data on the level of Irish-speaking amongst those who were aged 60 or more in 1911, these being survivors of the generation born during or not long before the Famine. Whilst some of those born during this period who were brought up as Irish-speakers in areas within which subsequent generations no longer spoke the language will have lost their command of Irish later in life, these data are presented as offering at least a minimum figure for Irish-speaking in each area in the second quarter of the nineteenth century. The use of data from the 1911 census in respect of dispensary districts and the smaller district electoral divisions provides a much more detailed indication of the geographical spread of the language during the period in question than could be provided by my earlier paper on this subject. That paper, offering data in respect of those born in each of the decades between 1770 and 1870, was based on age data for Irish-speaking from the 1851 to 1881 censuses of population-and those earlier censuses provided data only in respect of much larger geographical areas, viz. baronies. The validity of the 1911 census 60+ data as a method of deriving estimates of Irish-speaking in the period before the Famine is discussed. The pattern and scale of monoglot Irish-speaking in 1911 amongst those aged 60 and over is also presented.
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饥荒前的爱尔兰语:基于1911年人口普查数据对1851年以前出生、1911年仍健在人群的研究
摘要:本文的目的是提供1911年60岁或以上的爱尔兰语水平的详细地理数据,这些人是在饥荒期间或前不久出生的那一代幸存者。虽然在这一时期出生的一些人在后代不再说爱尔兰语的地区长大,他们在以后的生活中会失去对爱尔兰语的掌握,但这些数据至少提供了19世纪下半叶每个地区说爱尔兰语的最低数字。使用1911年人口普查关于药房区和较小选区的数据,比我先前关于这个主题的论文更详细地说明了在这段时间内华语的地理分布。这篇论文提供了1770年至1870年间每十年出生的人的数据,其基础是1851年至1881年人口普查中讲爱尔兰语的人口的年龄数据,而那些早期的人口普查只提供了更大的地理区域(即男爵领地)的数据。本文讨论了1911年人口普查数据作为估计饥荒前讲爱尔兰语人数的方法的有效性。1911年,在60岁及以上的人群中,单语爱尔兰语的模式和规模也被呈现出来。
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