Great article by Irish acedemic Caoimhín De Barra.
A huge part of it is failure to accept that the mass starvations of Gaelic speaking areas was deliberate imperial policy.
How right can this academic be when he’s talking about Arlene and Theresa, two names that have no real relevance in 2023. I might as well be talking about G W Bush’s impact on politics in 2023.
I don’t know if there’s a hatred of the language, as much as there’s an apathy, as people just don’t care about it. I get there are some people who are hardcore into it, but I feel the vast majority barely even register it as an issue cause they never need to use it.
Oh I absolutely hate irish, not for the reason this article is on about but cant say no to a bit of language bashing 😀
That language that got shoved down my through for my entire schooling. The one with no real world value. That subject the teaches got to teach you to “match words” to get the answers in test… yeah its terrible. and what’s worse is i probably know more of it than so many people who are proud of it cause i had to memorise the damn stories for the leaving cert.
Why so much hate you ask? besides being utterly useless, I don’t do language well. I had special classes for english all through primary school and up until 4th year till i managed a solid pass in ordinary. So me and people like me are forced to put huge effort into learning this thing that we will never use and holds no intrinsic value outside of nationalistic ideals
[reads comment section]. No fucking kidding! 😀
The amount of adult babies on r/Ireland with the usual variants of ‘teacher was mean to me so I hate Irish’. Grow up.
Honestly, we should do like the Quebecois do in Canada and force every aspect of Irish day to day life to be done as gaeilge. If you don’t take the time to learn you get fined. And even if that doesn’t work, fuck off to England.
The way it was taught in schools did not help.
Parents can’t speak it, primary school barely taught it besides fill in the blanks (counting the spaces and guessing the words), secondary school made me feel like a retard for having such poor irish and was ridiculed by the “wesht” banshee from Galway for not being able to speak it.
Couldn’t give a fuck to be honest, it would have been nice if it was taught better, but its a dead language with no real world use. It’s basically like latin, but atleast that is somewhat useful.
People who can speak Irish also come off a lot of the time as obnoxious arsebags and only do it as a way of showing off in weird moments. (see thread of Irish guy killed in Ukraine)
Maybe 13 years of forced learning being shoved down our throats with proven failed teaching methods leads to a lack of interest or care for the language?
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Great article by Irish acedemic Caoimhín De Barra.
A huge part of it is failure to accept that the mass starvations of Gaelic speaking areas was deliberate imperial policy.
How right can this academic be when he’s talking about Arlene and Theresa, two names that have no real relevance in 2023. I might as well be talking about G W Bush’s impact on politics in 2023.
I don’t know if there’s a hatred of the language, as much as there’s an apathy, as people just don’t care about it. I get there are some people who are hardcore into it, but I feel the vast majority barely even register it as an issue cause they never need to use it.
Oh I absolutely hate irish, not for the reason this article is on about but cant say no to a bit of language bashing 😀
That language that got shoved down my through for my entire schooling. The one with no real world value. That subject the teaches got to teach you to “match words” to get the answers in test… yeah its terrible. and what’s worse is i probably know more of it than so many people who are proud of it cause i had to memorise the damn stories for the leaving cert.
Why so much hate you ask? besides being utterly useless, I don’t do language well. I had special classes for english all through primary school and up until 4th year till i managed a solid pass in ordinary. So me and people like me are forced to put huge effort into learning this thing that we will never use and holds no intrinsic value outside of nationalistic ideals
[reads comment section]. No fucking kidding! 😀
The amount of adult babies on r/Ireland with the usual variants of ‘teacher was mean to me so I hate Irish’. Grow up.
Honestly, we should do like the Quebecois do in Canada and force every aspect of Irish day to day life to be done as gaeilge. If you don’t take the time to learn you get fined. And even if that doesn’t work, fuck off to England.
The way it was taught in schools did not help.
Parents can’t speak it, primary school barely taught it besides fill in the blanks (counting the spaces and guessing the words), secondary school made me feel like a retard for having such poor irish and was ridiculed by the “wesht” banshee from Galway for not being able to speak it.
Couldn’t give a fuck to be honest, it would have been nice if it was taught better, but its a dead language with no real world use. It’s basically like latin, but atleast that is somewhat useful.
People who can speak Irish also come off a lot of the time as obnoxious arsebags and only do it as a way of showing off in weird moments. (see thread of Irish guy killed in Ukraine)
Maybe 13 years of forced learning being shoved down our throats with proven failed teaching methods leads to a lack of interest or care for the language?
More like apathy I think.