It wasn't so long ago that it was not popular to speak Gaelic in Ireland because the areas that Gaelic is spoken in were much poorer areas.
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I used to go to a Gaelic class on a Saturday morning, but I never felt myself that I could speak it properly.
My first language is Gaelic.
As far as Irish writers being great, I think the fact that there have been two languages in Ireland for a very long time; there has obviously been a shared energy between those two languages.
Sometimes the archaism of the language when it's spoken is why we are all in love with the Irish today.
We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.
My point is there's a hidden Scotland in anyone who speaks the Northern Ireland speech. It's a terrific complicating factor, not just in Northern Ireland, but Ireland generally.
The position is: the Gaelic language is no longer the native language; it is dead, yet food is being brought to the graveyard.
Singing in Gaelic is very, very natural to do. I think lends itself very much so to being sung.
But I will say that living in Ireland has changed the cadence and fullness of speech, since the Irish love words and use as many of them in a sentence as possible.
I find being Irish quite a wearing thing. It takes so much work because it is a social construction. People think you are going to be this, this, and this.
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