Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Abbreviations -- Part 1: Foundations -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Irish, Ireland, neoliberalism: Some background -- Part 2: Overt and covert Irish-language policy post-2008 -- 3 Official Irish-language policy post-2008 -- 4 Irish-language institutions: Covert policy and state retrenchment -- 5 Austerity and Irish-language media -- 6 Neoliberalism and language policy in public and private spheres: Structural impediments -- Part 3: Neoliberalism and the Gaeltacht - an ethnographic study -- 7 Quantitative background to Part 3 -- 8 Effects of the post-2008 crisis on the Gaeltacht labour market -- 9 Migration -- 10 Tourism and the Gaeltacht post-2008: Uneasy bedfellows -- 11 Community responses to austerity -- 12 Cuts to other community projects -- 13 Further observations on language use -- Part 4: Conclusion -- 14 Summary and conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index