Abstract
The Irish language has a complicated past and a delicate future. Much of the language’s past and eventual decline occurred during and due to events that began during the nineteenth century. This paper explores the introduction of English language laws in Ireland as well as the tactics employed by the English to eliminate the Irish language and its speakers from the island as a whole. Although the decline of the Irish language in the nineteenth century was steep, Ireland did not go without attempts to retain and revitalize the Irish language against the efforts of the English settler government. This paper will summarize these events and efforts as well as explore the immediate and long-term effects which occurred in Ireland as its language was swept away.
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