November 26, 2007 by davidpham
Realizing the importance in the role of language in colonization and decolonization, Douglas Hype tried to bring back his Irish original language, Gaelic tongue, to the areas of literature, poetry, and many other areas in the Irish people’s daily lives, in order “to restore self-respect to Irish people, based on a shared rediscovery of the national culture” (p461). The most effective way in helping this former colonized do this is to make English, the language of the former colonizers, less influent through the strategy of deanglicization.
