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The position is: the Gaelic language is no longer the native language; it is dead, yet food is being brought to the graveyard.

— Patrick Kavanagh

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

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.

— Enya

My first language is Gaelic.

— Enya

I used to go to a Gaelic class on a Saturday morning, but I never felt myself that I could speak it properly.

— Johann Lamont

There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting.

— John Millington Synge

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

— Diane Wakoski

Irishmen are not reserved, and the company appeared dying to be intimately acquainted.

— William Hamilton Maxwell

Once in my childhood I had been eager to learn Irish; I thought to get leave to take lessons from an old Scripture-reader who spent a part of his time in the parish of Killinane, teaching such scholars as he could find to read their own language in the hope that they might turn to the only book then being printed in Irish, the Bible.

— Lady Gregory

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.

— Garry Hynes

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

— Paul de Man

✗Opposing Perspectives

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.

— John McGahern