Towards Inclusion: Protestants and the Irish Language

Towards Inclusion is a challenging and timely study of the attitudes of Protestant schoolchildren towards the Irish language. From 2003 to 2005 Ian Malcolm conducted extensive research in Protestant grammar schools throughout Northern Ireland, recording the attitudes of the students to the Irish language. Some of these students had attended a Gael-Linn language enrichment course, but the rest had little or no exposure to the language. The results of this research are both surprising and illuminating, and Malcolm's meticulous and insightful analysis makes a significant contribution to our understanding of the complexity of cultural identity in Northern Ireland.