Noel Ó Murchadha is Assistant Professor in Language Education at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. He teaches courses on bi/multilingualism, language pedagogy and research methods in language and education. His research focuses on attitudes and ideologies on linguistic variation, especially in minority contexts. He has completed projects on teenagers' and educators’ perceptions of linguistic variation in Irish and on language standardisation. His work examines the changing relationship between self and society in late modernity and the impact that such changes have on language variation and change in minoritised contexts.Bettina Migge is Professor of Linguistics and Head of the School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics at University College Dublin, Ireland. She is a member of the research group CNRS-SeDyL (France). She teaches courses in sociolinguistics and contact linguistics and has published extensively on diachronic and synchronic language contact, language variation and change, language documentation in multilingual contexts focusing on lesser-used languages and on identity formation in contexts of migration. Empirically, her research has focused on the Creoles of Suriname and French Guiana, the Gbe languages (Benin) and more recently on Irish English.

• Introduction: Support, transmission, education and target varieties in the Celtic languages: an overview 1. Celtic languages and sociolinguistics: a very brief overview of pertinent issues 2. ‘Is it really for talking?’: the implications of associating a minority language with the school 3. Factors influencing the likelihood of choice of Gaelic-medium primary education in Scotland: results from a national public survey 4. Developing resources for translanguaging in minority language contexts: A case study of rapping in an Irish primary school 5. Finding an ideological niche for new speakers in a minoritised language community

Noel Ó Murchadha is Assistant Professor in Language Education at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. He teaches courses on bi/multilingualism, language pedagogy and research methods in language and education. His research focuses on attitudes and ideologies on linguistic variation, especially in minority contexts. He has completed projects on teenagers' and educators’ perceptions of linguistic variation in Irish and on language standardisation. His work examines the changing relationship between self and society in late modernity and the impact that such changes have on language variation and change in minoritised contexts.Bettina Migge is Professor of Linguistics and Head of the School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics at University College Dublin, Ireland. She is a member of the research group CNRS-SeDyL (France). She teaches courses in sociolinguistics and contact linguistics and has published extensively on diachronic and synchronic language contact, language variation and change, language documentation in multilingual contexts focusing on lesser-used languages and on identity formation in contexts of migration. Empirically, her research has focused on the Creoles of Suriname and French Guiana, the Gbe languages (Benin) and more recently on Irish English.

• Introduction: Support, transmission, education and target varieties in the Celtic languages: an overview 1. Celtic languages and sociolinguistics: a very brief overview of pertinent issues 2. ‘Is it really for talking?’: the implications of associating a minority language with the school 3. Factors influencing the likelihood of choice of Gaelic-medium primary education in Scotland: results from a national public survey 4. Developing resources for translanguaging in minority language contexts: A case study of rapping in an Irish primary school 5. Finding an ideological niche for new speakers in a minoritised language community