What are the advantages of Irish/Gaelic-medium Education

[squirell1952]

PARAT EIGHT: re Kathleen Watkins and Gay Byrnel

After the weddiing, Gay taught her how to play the flute!!

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GOODBYE THIS TIME OGGUS SLAWN LIV GOLLAIRE!

HAPPY 2012.

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PART SEVEN: Gotta joke for you! Why do the lower classes breed like rabbits and lice?

Because they cannot read the instructions on a condom label!

And what did King Elvis die of? He died of woodworm in his wooden heart!

And on the night Joe Dolan died, a man went into a pub in Mullingar, then to the toilet. While in the lav, the ghost of Joe appeared to him ... AND IT PUT THE WILLIES UP HIM!!!

Before she married Gay Byrne, Kathleen Watkins used to plaly the harp.

/continued.

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PART SIX: Monte Snotty is the posh part of Cork City and when all the posh paddies get drunk, they speak like the rest of us, some clearly, some indistinctly!! And have you been towards the west of our country or even to the north? Ohmygawd! What DO they talk about in their pubs and cafes? So, let us teach THEM instead. Waste of time, really, as those people will not avail of free education. It is alilen to their culture and words of 3 or more syllables get shortened to ONE OR TWO SYLLABLES!

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PART FIVE: People get so emotional about returning our language to us all and using it in everyday situations. But, look and listen, half of us can't even speak ENGLISH clearly let alone a language that is a few centuries dead.Just go around the deprived areas in any of our cities and see if you can understand what the people are saying. Some of them speak thickly. You will NOT UNDERSTAND THEM or their brogues.The back streets of Blaw Clee produces a different language altogether.Montysnotty?

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PART FOUR: Would they not be better off teaching Irish at high school level? People in primary schools could do computers or sign language instead. When they get older, they may, by then, have an interest in some continental language.Well, if they can speak French or Spanish, then they have a talent for languages.That way, they can still do Irish. If they don't have a talent for languages, why waste time and money on them? They'll have a talent in some other equallly-valuable field. HAPPY 2012.

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PART THREE: Golliv,not Galway, is the correct pronunciation. Likewise, Duvlin, not Dublin. Bayle Fersty, not Belfast. People may speak professional or classical Irish for all I care but if I want to say EEHA VAW instead of EEHA WAW, why can't I without some thick correcting me? After all, that is what we learned at school. Gooing Home (egg dulla volla) is often rendered Egg Dulla Wolla. Small is Bug, Bag and Beg. I won't ask you which is the correct one - all three probably are.

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PART TWO: (Quidda Doe): A lot of the native speakers I have met seem to be living in a world of their own - elitist, to be correct. And they are terribly Anglophobic. Their ignorance has dampened my interest in the lingo revival. We're in Europe now. Brussels, not London, is our dictator. So would we not be better off becoming Europhobics instead of Anglophobes?

I AM VERY SERIOUS ABOUT ALL THIS.

Slaw lat, mo corra, oggus go nyree on boehher lat!

Until next time, goodbye. Slawn.

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DEAR SIR OR MADAM: How can we ever read Irish if newspapers continue to omit the famous, or infamous, fodda? Board Na Mona becomes Birdna Monna! Sean (John) becomes Sean (old!). Now you see what I am getting at. And the Irish Lingo I learned at school was belted into all of us. My schoolboy dialect has nothing to do with the type of Irish we hear on the radio and TV. To get newspaper editors to briing back the fodda, you need to bring back the teachers with their birches!HOW ELSE CAN WE LEARN?