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... disaster. It would cut us off from the great and ever-growing English-speaking people of the world, including the many millions of the Irish race abroad. These are -nearly all English speaking, and will remain so; and there are far more of Irish blood outside ...
... knowledge of these rules for reading, writing and speaking the language. It has been found in practice that a student may have studied all these rules and have learnt most of them by heart, and yet fail to speak or write the language correctly. What is the ...
... Buckmaster, of Aghada, Co. Cork. He declares: ‘“ To say that a man is no Irishman if he does not speak the Irish language is empty semi-political rubbish. I speak English, I am writing in English, but I have not the slightest intention of claiming to be an ...
... disappointing to find what a lot of children know a lot of Irish nowadays and vet can’t or won't speak a word of it. Evidently they haven’t been in the habit of speaking it, or of having it spoken to them, in the ordinarv way of business, but only as a task—the ...
... that if we wish to find out how a child of five has learnt to speak its mother-tongue, we must not think of reading, writing or theories of grammar at all. We know that children do learn to speak a language naturally. If we wish to teach others the same language ...
... Irish-speaking district—as there are in many cases—it should be divided amongst Irish speakers or used for the enlargement of the holdings in the adjoining districts. In other words, the Gaeltacht must expand naturally, and the new Irish-speaking districts ...
... atmosphere of Essential English, and they rear their children accordingly. That is, they speak English to them. Tt is only to other people’s children they speak Irish. Thank God, there are sufficient of other people’s children about—as in the case of ...
... the indifference of the parents of the district regarding the speaking of Irish to their children some of the girls have very little Irish when they first come to school. Miss Clancy speaks practically nothing but Irish to the little ones during school ...
... What would give them that distinctive Irish character ? I will be answered—the speaking of the Irish language at them. I agree heartily, but I ask, would those speaking that Irish language conceivably boycott other things Irish? Irish dances, for instance ...
... for one, two, or three generations. The children are generally sent home for their education and speak English like other English people. But they speak Italian, French, or Spanish, like Italians, French and Spaniards, with the gestures and manners of ...
... the percentage of Irish speakers in a distriet which would warrant its being regarded as (a) an Irish-speaking district, or (b) a partly Irish-speaking district; and the present extent and location of such districts. 2. To inquire and make rec>mmendations ...
... \\‘ { N\ o / MODERN DRESS. Limerick, Feb. 2, 1928 Dear Sir,—That communication of Dudley Fletcher is a nonsensical, not to speak of ungram,. matical produetion.; I am surprised in one sense jt your allowing your valpable space for that flippant serawl ...