There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.
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 used to go to a Gaelic class on a Saturday morning, but I never felt myself that I could speak it properly.
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.
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.
The position is: the Gaelic language is no longer the native language; it is dead, yet food is being brought to the graveyard.
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.
It is time for dead languages to be quiet.
Singing in Gaelic is very, very natural to do. I think lends itself very much so to being sung.
If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.