Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Irish language in Northern Ireland" in English language version.
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: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)by 1851 the proportion of Irish speakers had fallen to 23 per cent, and less than a third of these spoke Irish only.
Partition in 1920 left Northern Ireland outside the southern state, and decades of systematic repression of the nationalist community led to the total marginalisation of Irish from public life in the North. . . . The [Good Friday] Agreement also obliged the British government to develop Irish-medium education