... out to them even to read Irish much less speak it. They had little to read though they could read it. They had to solve the problem of learning to speak it. It is no wonder that many failed even if they had the desire. @We are to have Irish taught daily ...

... only Irish could speak. ) Cfi 7 \/E\\ His lordship with puzzled and fog-shrouded mien A moment regarded the talking shoneen, And wondered what lingo he voiced with his tongue, ' Or out of what bog-hole the fellow had sprung. Then speaking in Irish the fellow ...

... that the grammar learnt by a child at school is not strictly speaking the grammar of the language as the child speaks at all, but the grammar of the literary language. A child generally speaks the language as it has heard it spoken and used. It uses the ...

... a day at Irish will show in too many cases ; but a large amount of it must be laid at the feet of the experts of whom Seap speaks. They seem to have formed a conspiracy of silence to have patented their methods, and refuse to let them out, even at a fee ...

... excessive movement in the early stages, so also it seems as if the teacher of Irish should be very careful in teaching a child to speak Irish so that it may not be hindered from developing into a speaker by attempting too much at once. In actual fact, what actually ...

... be restored to its former position as the everyday language of the people, are those who have not yet attempted to learn to speak it. Up to the present most of the time of the Gaelic Leaguers has been taken up with making converts and in combatting heretical ...

... learn to speak Irish, the next generation will in all probability give the task up as hopeless. At present many thousands of new students are beginning the study of Irish, Having no experience -of the matter, they think that learning to speak Irish is ...

... It is obvious, therefore, that the teacher of English has an easy task as compared with the teacher of Irish to English-speaking children. The teacher of English has only to teach the correct rules of a language already well known. The teacher of English ...

... Noolss an 1640, 1922 Apn 4 3 4 ¢los. Ttlcélof 1/6 34C pAisve. Saevily ahmém & Béar 04 Labaipt o 5 na plipoid. Parents of Irish-speaking Children cordially invited. ...

... was all bunkum and it was time to stop it. Ald. Kenneally came out with the old familiar tune that if we are not able to speak Irish it does not mean that we are not as good Irishmen as the people who are fluent Irish speakers. Up Cork!—or as the phrase ...

... be applied :— “ To publish, at a cheap rate, elementary books from which to learn the language, and Irish books for Irish-speaking districts.” Some of the more active members of the S.P.IL, not satisfied with progress of the work, set up the Gaelic Union ...

... they are written for people who have left their school days behind them, the English is largely unintelligible. We cannot speak for the youngsters now at school. For instance, we are told that: ‘ When the predicate of an 1+ sentence is a verbal noun phrase ...