An Oral Irish test will be administered at the entrance to the gated community. If you can recite a chapter from ‘Peig’, in the original, you can get in.
I mean given belfast has one shouldn’t the capital of the country have one too?
Interesting idea tbh
Poorly?
It’s not really explaining how it would work. They’re saying they want to approach it with a business outlook, and have Irish the language of commerce. But doesn’t explain how. That how is the difficult bit.
This was an April Fool?
Isn’t clondalkin a gaeltacht? If not it was certainly up for discussion
Someone is obsessed with all these quarters, there must be 16 quarters in Cork city at this stage.
>describing it as a “LinkedIn as Ghaeilge”.
Please no
Badly. A few people speaking irish, the rest of us going about our regular lives.
Who’s going to go to a particular shopping area just to speak irish? Who isn’t going to go just because they aren’t meant to speak English there?
Unpopular opinion in this sub, but I can’t stand the language. Managed to get out of doing it for the leaving, and so glad I did. Frustrates me that any Gov spending goes into it.
>How would it work
Poorly and with huge government subsidies.
SPOILER ALERT: It wouldn’t. Just like everything else in Dublin.
Sure, Galway has a ‘Latin Quarter’,* so nothing’s off the table really.
*There’s an argument to be made that there’s a significant Mediterranean influence in Galway but they picked the part of town built centuries after Galway stopped being a trading town.
“Leitreas mar customieri aontacht”
It would work the same as the other quarters except estate agents would ensure that you understood this phrase:
Níl sé d’acmhainn agat cónaí anseo.
This quote from one of the councilors is interesting:
“At the moment, businesses are actively discouraged from doing things through Irish, simply because their interactions with the State are forced into English.”
Jesus but the amount of shoneens in this thread who are writing off an initiative pertaining to our native language off-hand…
Sounds like a ghetto to keep them away from the rest of us.
If it’s like the other Irish language regions in Ireland it doesn’t work because there’s no jobs.
The whole Irish language thing has been so piss poorly administered. I hated learning it in school, saw no sense to it and was so glad when I could let it go when I graduated.
And will contain 3 Carroll’s shops to squeeze the shillings out of the tourists.
It wouldn’t.
Flocks of angry impotent teachers would travel there like it’s Lourdes so they could start personal vendettas with random people.
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An Oral Irish test will be administered at the entrance to the gated community. If you can recite a chapter from ‘Peig’, in the original, you can get in.
I mean given belfast has one shouldn’t the capital of the country have one too?
Interesting idea tbh
Poorly?
It’s not really explaining how it would work. They’re saying they want to approach it with a business outlook, and have Irish the language of commerce. But doesn’t explain how. That how is the difficult bit.
This was an April Fool?
Isn’t clondalkin a gaeltacht? If not it was certainly up for discussion
Someone is obsessed with all these quarters, there must be 16 quarters in Cork city at this stage.
>describing it as a “LinkedIn as Ghaeilge”.
Please no
Badly. A few people speaking irish, the rest of us going about our regular lives.
Who’s going to go to a particular shopping area just to speak irish? Who isn’t going to go just because they aren’t meant to speak English there?
Unpopular opinion in this sub, but I can’t stand the language. Managed to get out of doing it for the leaving, and so glad I did. Frustrates me that any Gov spending goes into it.
>How would it work
Poorly and with huge government subsidies.
SPOILER ALERT: It wouldn’t. Just like everything else in Dublin.
Sure, Galway has a ‘Latin Quarter’,* so nothing’s off the table really.
*There’s an argument to be made that there’s a significant Mediterranean influence in Galway but they picked the part of town built centuries after Galway stopped being a trading town.
“Leitreas mar customieri aontacht”
It would work the same as the other quarters except estate agents would ensure that you understood this phrase:
Níl sé d’acmhainn agat cónaí anseo.
This quote from one of the councilors is interesting:
“At the moment, businesses are actively discouraged from doing things through Irish, simply because their interactions with the State are forced into English.”
Jesus but the amount of shoneens in this thread who are writing off an initiative pertaining to our native language off-hand…
Sounds like a ghetto to keep them away from the rest of us.
If it’s like the other Irish language regions in Ireland it doesn’t work because there’s no jobs.
The whole Irish language thing has been so piss poorly administered. I hated learning it in school, saw no sense to it and was so glad when I could let it go when I graduated.
And will contain 3 Carroll’s shops to squeeze the shillings out of the tourists.
It wouldn’t.
Flocks of angry impotent teachers would travel there like it’s Lourdes so they could start personal vendettas with random people.
“An bhfuil tú ag féachaint?”