Title: Bad scholarship, no linguistics
Review: Reg Hindley's book has the appearance of solid scholarship with lots of statistics. However, he is a geographer, not a sociolinguist, and thus many of his conclusions are frankly question-begging. He seems to be pre-convinced that the language is dead, and writes accordingly. Although exaggerated optimism about the future of the language is definitely not justified either, Hindley's is no objective approach either. There are direct lies, such as the reference to the disintegration of the Ráth Cairn Irish-speaking colony, which is still going strong, having even a web page in Irish. Hindley has confused Ráth Cairn with the Baile Ghib colony, which did disintegrate all right.
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