Front -- Contents -- Foreword -- Contributors -- The Irish Language -- Irish in the Global Context -- The State and the Irish Language: an Historical Perspective -- Census Data on the Irish Language -- Irish-language Policy 1922 - 2007: Balancing Maintenance and Revival -- The Irish Language and Identity -- Linguistic Change and Standardization -- Corpus Planning for Irish - Dictionaries and Terminology -- The Gaeltacht Today -- Territories of Desire: Words and Music in the Irish Language -- Prose Writing in Irish Today -- Offshore on Land - Poetry in Irish Now -- Irish and the Media -- Placenames Policy and its Implementation -- Irish in the Education System -- Teaching and Learning Irish Today -- Modern Irish Scholarship at Home and Abroad -- Current Attitudes to Irish -- The Global Diaspora and the 'New' Irish (Language) -- Irish and the Legislative Perspective -- Glossary of Terms -- Index of Proper Names.