Niall Ó Cíosáin
The Print Cultures of the Celtic Languages, 1700–1900
Ollscoil na Gaillimhe – University of Galway
abstractwhile cultural trajectories celtic language communities broad similarities long term histories medium term quite different article approaches issue comparative analysis print cultures welsh scottish gaelic breton irish eighteenth nineteenth centuries approach quantitative qualitative surveying total production four languages well looking presence absence different genres different languages also examines diaspora publishing america australia different patterns explained primarily terms nature extent institutional church support publishing languageskeywords print cultureliteracylanguage shiftpublishingreading