![]() ![]() Hopefully things are changing in this regard and I know for instance that my nephews go to an All-Irish speaking school and it seems to be an excellent schoool. Indeed it would have been handy to discuss matters abroad with my other half without others people knowing what we were talking about before we came to a decision in Hotels and restaurants and things. However, after travelling to over 30 nations where everybody speaks their own language no matter how small the country I've changed my opinion although not about the facts that the Irish language should be not be just for the nutters and claimed by a certain section of society. Of course irish is going to die with this type of attitude or attract oddballs and diehards of a certain persuasion. You couldnt on the other hand, like going to football games ( soccer AH), Rock music, the BEEB, Granham Greene and speak Irish which is daft. It was like a fiddle playing, GAA loving, FF sporting culchie concept. They foisted that stupid book on us, the teachers were usually terrible but the main reason was that you had to conform to a certain view of being Irish to speak Irish. I cant speak a word of Irish and was always very anti saving the Irish language for loads of reasons. You've awakened memories, I actually feel a bit angry now. I went to a Christian Brothers school but it wasn't a brother who destroyed my interest in the language, it was a violent lay teacher. ![]() Muiris O'Suilleabhain and Tomas O'Criomhthain were far superior. It wasn't as if educators were stuck for choice if they wanted writers from the Blaskets. Peig Sayers ( / p srz / 18731958) fou una autora i seanchaí irlandesa, nascuda a Dún Chaoin, comtat de Kerry, Irlanda. To me it is just so depressing, a whingebag aul wan droning on and on. As someone who liked the Irish language I thought it was an appalling book to foist on anyone. ![]()
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