Revive the Irish language
I think it is vitally important that the Irish language is revived. People who insist that it is a waste of time have probably never learned the language or visited a Gaeltacht area of Ireland. It is a beautiful inspirational language and it should be the day-to-day language used in Ireland. It was only in the last 100 years that it has declined because of foreign interference. It is up to the government of an Saorstát na héireann to invest money into the language and to change the curriculum and stop forcing it into the young people of Ireland and making them hate it but to show people the advantages of learning their native language. Slán agus go raibh maith agat, goodbye and many thanks.
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I am from the north western part of Germany. The do speak Frisian there as well! And since I live in the UK I discover quite a lot of similarities.
The masses learn a language when they feel their economic well-being is attached to learning that language. I don't live in Ireland, so I don't know the answer to the question I'm about to ask: Has the government implemented any sort of programme whereby businesses operating in Irish and hiring Irish-speaking staff receive some sort of credit or funding?
Learning Irish in Dublin schools hindered my education as it was compulsary. A waste of time. Latin would have been much better and more helpful. I'm now living in Canada and have no use for it.
There is a simple way to revive the Irish Language, and it's not necessarily about throwing more money at it, or even demanding that the Irish Government do a better job of promoting it (which of course they should). Its much simpler than that. All people have to do is learn it and use it. Even change start with the individual. So let's start the Irish language revival ourselves. Slán.
I don't like the way they teach Irish in schools there should be a better system put in place. I think they should be learning the language instead of also throwing Irish literature in.
Learning Irish in Dublin schools hindered my education ... Couldn't agree more, Seorsia. I had to make a hard choice between Tech Drawing & French (in both of which I was very, very strong) to accommodate compulsory Irish. I'd love to learn it now, but back then it was an enforced burden, and cut my options before I'd even had time to realistically determine my post-secondary school fate.
I think that the schools are trying to revive the Irish language but they have not hit on the right technique yet.
Hello, I am a German learning Irish. I decided to do so in order to help it surviving. Furthermore I think that Irish is a language which has produced a great culture and literature. However I think that Irish will never be spoken on the whole island again because there will always be a lot of people thinking it to be useless. This is in fact a globalized world. I think that there will even be Germans mainly speaking English in the next decades! It is the responsibility of people who are aware of their own culture to speak Irish as often as possible. It is worth in any case to introduce children into Irish very early so that they are fully competent if they later want to take part in the life of Gaeilgeoiri. But it is not worth forcing teenagers to learn and speak Irish if they don't want. Regular Irish speakers or native speakers should show selfconfidence in order that other people will switch to Irish when speaking to them. But I think that the regional languages of Germany are doing much worse in some areas of Germany than Irish. I have read that there are a lot of activities through the medium of Irish in the cities. I would be glad if I were able to go to locations where I can practice our regional language. In my region we have probably a percentage of people competent in our regional language which is similar to that of daily users of Irish. Go n-eiri leat, good luck to you.
It had been in decline long before 100 years ago. The revival only started at the end of the 19th century with the founding of Conradh na Gaeilge. More people speak Irish now than then.
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Irish orthography is a challenge. Sure it is nice to have the history of your language in your spelling but it hurts people gain literacy when they have learning disabilities. How do the Irish think about spelling?
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