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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.

I can speak French, understand Gaelic and know my history. That's the training music has given me.

My father could swear in Gaelic and English, by the way, ladies and gentlemen.

I speak some French, Spanish, a little German and Gaelic.

Being Irish, I always had this love of words.

When I visited Ireland with my father and heard the people on the farm talking, I couldn't believe the gift of language they had. I felt very untalented.

Everything that we inherit, the rain, the skies, the speech, and anybody who works in the English language in Ireland knows that there's the dead ghost of Gaelic in the language we use and listen to and that those things will reflect our Irish identity.

Sometimes the archaism of the language when it's spoken is why we are all in love with the Irish today.