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Words Matter.Public attitudes to the Irish languageand Ulster-Scots

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Description

In this seminar, Dr Aisling O’Boyle (Queen’s University Belfast) and Prof Lorna Carson (Trinity College Dublin) highlighted findings from the 2025 Northern Ireland Life and Times survey, exploring public attitudes to languages in Northern Ireland, as well as the complicated relationship between languages, cultures, and identities. In particular, they highlighted attitudes and knowledge of Irish and Ulster-Scots.
Responses were then given by Pol Deeds (Irish Language Commissioner) and Katy Radford (Director, Office for Identity and Cultural Expression).
Period04 Jun 2026
Event typeSeminar
LocationBelfast, United KingdomShow on map

Keywords

  • languages
  • public attitudes
  • Irish language
  • Ulster-Scots

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