I noticed this ad for a room to let in Dublin on a local FB group.I’m impressed they prefer to speak Gailge in the house.

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  7. If any of ye ever went to a Gaeltacht you’d find plenty of immigrants speak Irish. Plenty talk about wanting to keep the language alive but regard those actually doing it with suspicion/derision

  8. As an immigrant, I don’t have an issue with this. People should be able to feel comfortable at home, and if that includes choosing a dominant language to be used in the home, so be it. Himself is Czech, and sometimes his friends ‘forget’ to speak English despite being fluent.

    There’s ads in the local expat groups that are either written in a language other than English (Portuguese, Czech etc) or explicitly say that X nationalities preferred.

  9. Im Polish renting here for 16 years and I don’t see issues. I lived with few different nationalities and for example I didn’t like live with Indian people as smell of their food is to much for me. Almost every nation have they differences and not all have to be compatible with our way off living and it’s nothing about being racist.
    Hope in near future have enough free time to start learning Gailge.

  10. Ard Fhear. Go deo tá daoine ag labhairt faoin teanga gan a bheith ag labhairt tríd an teanga. Is dea an rud é go bhfuil daoine a labhairt aríst. Tír gan teanga tír gan anam.

  15. I went to a gaelscoil and gaelcholáiste and there were the children of immigrants in attendance. A passion for Gaeilge is not Irish-only or white-only, language is for everyone

  18. I’m annoyed they say “Bill for WiFi”. Unless you have a very weird setup, WiFi should be free. It’s the *internet* the bills are for.

  20. Surely you’d place the ad in Irish if it’s an Irish speaker you want? Otherwise this smells a bit like the old English signs that used to read “no Irish, no blacks”

  24. OP’s shock that people speak Irish (“Gailge” fuck me) in Dublin says a lot about the general attitude towards the language in this country 🙃

  26. I was born and raised stateside, but my father is Irish. His parents (and most of my relations back in Ireland) are not only fluent Irish speakers, but native speakers who prefer speaking Irish at home and in town (it’s rural Munster, though, so not quite the same as Dublin in that regard).

    But that made me wonder—how different are the various Irish dialects? Munster Irish vs Ulster Irish, for instance. And what about the Gaelic dialects that….aren’t even technically Irish? Manx, Scottish, Welsh? Could a fluent Irish speaker communicate in Gaelic with a fluent Manx speaker? I mean, not all Celts are Irish….and quite a few do speak fluent Gaelic.

  32. The people waxing lyrical about this being discriminatory are acting like Irish isn’t itself an endangered language in a disadvantaged position at the moment for which immersion opportunities are limited, and also like there aren’t any foreign people who learn the language. Or maybe I missed the part where they said ‘Irish speaker but if you’re not born in Ireland get to fuck’?

  34. It’s all well and good to compare Irish to a language like French. If it helps to enlighten the more ignorant among some of these respondents then fair enough.

    But let’s not pretend like French and Irish are comparable here. Irish is native to this land. French is not. Irish is endangered, French is not.

    And for those of you who claim to be discriminated against by being foreign, you made a conscious choice to move to a country where Irish is the native language. You should have known that at the very least this is a naturally bilingual country (or unnatural depending on how you look at it). If you don’t like it, tough shit. If you feel the need to further the ideology of British empire then there are two words you might understand: “fuck you”.

  38. I wish I copped on in school and learned Irish but I just skated by and then never spoke a word of it again after. It makes me happy to know there are a few out there preserving the language still. More power to them.

    (Although I’m low key worried about a plot twist where by “the Irish language” they mean English and they’re just getting a dig in at any foreigners or bilingual people who go between English and another language)

  44. Not sure about the rest but I prefer quiet, tidy people as well. I don’t blame the person for advertising those preferences. Noisy, messy extraverts are an unbearable disgrace as far as living goes past the age of 21.

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