Sir,—In his review of Gearóid Ó Tuathaigh’s I mBéal an Bháis: The Great Famine and the language shift in nineteenth-century Ireland (HI 24.1, Jan./Feb. 2016), Proinsias Ó Drisceoil makes a number of extremely valid points, amongst them (a) that the Irish colleges in Europe did their best to keep the language alive and (b) that ... Read more
