Yeah, a complete demolition job on one’s culture, multiple ethnic cleansings via famine and several waves of colonisation has that effect.
by renegade_xWo
Yeah, a complete demolition job on one’s culture, multiple ethnic cleansings via famine and several waves of colonisation has that effect.
by renegade_xWo
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Colonisation and the famine did most of the damage, but Irish people most certainly dealt the final blow. Gaeltachtaí are in a much worse position now than 70 years ago, we can’t blame anyone but ourselves for that. Successive governments with either hostile or neglectful approaches to our national language has accelerated the decline over the last century. When the Gaelic Revival took off around the time of independence there was still plenty of time to turn things around. Interest in the Gaeloideachas sector has come far too late and will do very little as most Gaelcholáiste students have very broken and incorrect Irish at best. Irish language media will be next to suffer from this decline as there will be few to no speakers competent enough to understand the content as the native population continues to decline.
You can blame the Brits for most of the damage, but we had 100+ years to reverse it and chose not to.
Are you fluent in Irish?
We’ve been independent for a century and we’ve made zero progress on restoring the language.
Do you have a graphic that shows middle english and it’s decline in the same period?
Irish culture isn’t dead, it’s in our hearts, how we laugh, sing, dance and fight. We’ll never die.
The English destroyed our forests and millions of our people but they’ll never destroyed our spirit.
We are Ireland, here today or a million years later on Mars, we are all one big giant finger to the British.
Long live the spirit of the Irish.
😂😂😂
I’m surprised by the green in Kerry Head.
I wanna go back to the language so bad. I just don’t know where to start
Read an article this morning- apparently property prices are driving locals away from Gaeltachtaí which will only further fuck the language as they risk being assimilated.
Far too many of us use the excuse of “how it’s taught” rather than admitting we are adults who have made fuck all effort to interact with the language, yet alone learn a word of it after leaving school.
We could all go and learn the language if we bothered to. It’s time to stop blaming the British for this all of the learning materials out there. I’m absolutely awful at Irish, but I’m picking up speed bit by bit.
Everyone, if you’re pissed off, that you can’t speak Irish, go and learn it.
FYI anyone looking for resources for learning Irish as an adult…
https://www.reddit.com/r/ireland/comments/bsh2mp/im_an_irish_adult_who_wants_to_learn_irish/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf
https://www.reddit.com/r/ireland/comments/4vobfr/how_to_learn_irish_as_an_adult_in_dublin/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf
https://www.reddit.com/r/ireland/comments/nci49k/learning_irish_for_adults/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf
https://www.reddit.com/r/ireland/comments/oje2vs/irish_learning_resources_for_adults/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf
https://www.reddit.com/r/ireland/comments/mkftf1/learning_irish_as_an_adult/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf
https://www.reddit.com/r/ireland/comments/s00lbl/what_are_the_best_ways_to_learn_irish_as_an_adult/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf
1200 years will do that
whats with the massive time jump
I learn gaelic on duolingo, can you irish cunts please relearn it asap, so i have some people to chat to when i visit.
😂😂 no one lives on inishmurray. Why on earth is it coloured green.
My own opinion but if we want Irish to prevail we should be teaching it as a first language in schools exactly how it’s done in gaelscoil. All subjects thought in Irish and all conversations in Irish.
I think it is on the rise but only slowly . More and more gaelscoil have opened in my area
Is Meiriceánach mé. Tá mé ag staidéar Gaeilge leis Conradh na Gaeilge. Tá cúpla focal agam
Did the Norman Welsh wave have any significance upon the language? Pre 1100 to post 1300 Welsh garrisons change the language Welsh additions?