re: #116 HappyWarrior

Yep that’s right. I think it’s beautiful language especially when sung. My third grandmother per her obituary spoke only Irish despite living in the US over 50 years. She was from what’s called the Gaeltacht, the part of Ireland where Irish is the primary language. Those places have been disappearing over the years but her home in County Mayo is still more Irish speaking than a lot of the country.

That’s not the way it is now, in Ireland. Almost every school is a dual English/Gaelic school. The pushback was in areas like Mayo, (my great grandfathers birthplace) where they didn’t want English taught. Smacked down. In another generation, Ireland will again be truly bilingual.

The language of the poets and the singers, the bards, will once again be understood by and sung by all of the population. That’s proper. That is something for which every country should strive, to embrace their past, and their present.

Scotland is striving to embrace their past language as well, whole universities dedicated to the old tongue. The trend is spreading. It’s a good thing.

Colonialism, in this day and age, should never be allowed to destroy the past. It doesn’t matter if it was the Roman Empire or the colonization of Africa, every culture and language should have relevance in the place of its birth.