... DO YOU SPEAK IRISH ? Don’t say you do if you don’t. Think the question over. For English is a funny language. Do you speak Irish? should mean, Do you usually speak it? Instead of that, it is taken to mean can you speak it? And that is why so many people ...

... Mr. J. J. Walsh, speaking at Cabinteely on behalf of the candidature of Mr. T. F. Healy, said : “ They could take it that the time was coming when grain would receive the protecting hand of the ...

... when speaking of language teaching under Government supervision. There is something more than a mere difference of degree between Mussolini’s Italian in the Dolomites, and O’Sullivan’s Irish in the Free State. But our Press does not see it. The implicit ...

... know Irish, speak it to everybody who can understand you, and always speak it to children. As I have been saying, they will understand you, and, the being spoken to by the like of you in Irish is the greatest encouragement they can get to speak it. If you ...

... Elections. Let wise men speak from that plank and advocate the real economic salvation of Ireland. Let them speak of the town and the country, of the farmer and the labourer, of the industrial people and their employés, but let them speak of them all correctly ...

... realise this fact I am stressing about the Numbep that can speak Irish. De Valera (I think it was De Valera) said we had Ireland for the taking and to take it. As certainly we have Irish for the speak. ing if all of us spoke it who can. Louis Walsh’s discovery ...

... term Gaeltacht (Irish speaking - distriet) and Breac Gaeltacht (partly Irish speaking district) in respect of parishes or combinations of parishes where practically all the adults know Irish, but not one per cent. of them speak it at home or in the fields ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... common-sense verdict must be utterly against it. Whatever might for a period be our limitations, if we became Irish-speaking and non-English-speaking all of a sudden—and both are, of course, impossible—our cultural state generally could not be worse than it is; ...

... composite procession will not pin their faith in an Irish-speaking Ireland. We do not think that Captain Redmond has any enthusiasm for an Irish-Ireland. We may take it as fairly certain that an Irish-speaking Ire}and will not be one of the planks of the new platorm ...

... properly qualified Gaelic-speaking teachers at the Ministry of Education’s disposal, whose services are now being wasted in the English-speaking districts, be concentrated in the Gaelic fringe. And similarly, let Gaelic-speaking civil servants and officials ...