Cromwell's law wasn't enforced in most of Ireland, and Gaelic was still widely spoken until the Potato Famine. The Welsh language was just as oppressed. Plus there's nothing to stop Gaelic being 'relaunched' so to speak.
Cromwells laws? Are you serious? It was illegal to be a Catholic and speak Irish regardless of Cromwell. Read up.
I dislike the Catholic church but we owe them due to them educating us in forests and bogs even though they faced execution if found out.
I am not a Catholic and I can speak Gaelic. What are you on about? Google has knocked your point out hasn't it?
Gaelic was still widely spoken till the potato famine, regardless of any thing you've said. There are millions of Catholics in Ireland. How many people speak Gaelic as a first language? Why choose to speak the language of a country that you resent, as so many Irish do? Why not speak your native tongue like the Welsh?
Political Power rested in Dublin, Irish was all but wiped out in the Pale. The language used was English in political circles. To engage in politics you had to use it. With the Church, there was a priest in every town and village in the country. The power base was spread more evenly and was certainly more visible. By the 1870's and the start of the cultural and literary revival that led to the Home Rule movement there was only the west and south west that still spoke Irish. It was a pretty low base to come back from. I don't know the figures but are there more Welsh speakers than Irish? I got at least 2 messages today completely in Irish. Just little sayings, but it is well and widely used.
There are a lot of Welsh speakers, particularly in north Wales. Some of them speak Welsh far better than English, and will always use it between themselves. And the Welsh don't exhibit anywhere near the bitterness towards the English that many Irish do.
English peole refering to the 'famine' sticks in the craw also. Deliberate starvation. Admidited by your govt
Difference being that I actually like Ciaran and Rebel. I wouldn't have pissed on TFWNN if he'd been on fire.
Yep. Victoria gave more money to Battersea dogs home tun "famine" relief. There was never a famine here. A famine means a shortage of food.
Where and when? You know people speak Irish as a first language? People like you are the reason for Irish Nationialist violince, wheather you realise it or not.
What should we call it? The Irish Holocaust as Jacky once suggested By the way, how many have you had tonight?
I'm ****ed if I can find numbers of speakers of Welsh and Irish . M old man still constructs sentences as though they were in Irish. I know loads of I'll that do.
