Review: O’Rourke, Bernadette and John Walsh. 2020. New Speakers of Irish in the Global Context: New Revival? New York: Routledge. 212 pages. ISBN: 978-1032173634
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Glass, M. (2021). Review: O’Rourke, Bernadette and John Walsh. 2020. New Speakers of Irish in the Global Context: New Revival? New York: Routledge. 212 pages. ISBN: 978-1032173634. Studia Celtica Posnaniensia, 6(1), 52–61. https://doi.org/10.2478/scp-2021-0004

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Review: O’Rourke, Bernadette and John Walsh. 2020. New Speakers of Irish in the Global Context: New Revival? New York: Routledge. 212 pages. ISBN: 978-1032173634.

Review by MAGGIE GLASS, University of Limerick, Ireland.

https://doi.org/10.2478/scp-2021-0004
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