Irish Language Sinn Féin election broadcast

The speaker has a pronounced English accent, isn't it?

To incasilver
I don't think blaming the British for their actions in Ireland is a made up reason. I believe it is called 800 years of occupation, the terror of Cromwell, the Famine, but I might be wrong. After all, all those things might have been made up.

Cad atá ort, a amadán? Scotti... was the latin word for Irish people. We had our own term. Gaeil nó Éireannaigh in later years.

And why , do you imagine, the Romans called them Scotti??? There was no 'we', apart from the pagan Gaels whom the RCC outlawed as entire 'heretics'. Why don't you read the Statutes of Kilkenny? Most Gaelic , including yours, is English translated into Gaelic ....

I dont know what point your trying to make. But you seem to be under the impression Irish was revived. It was contiually spoken on the western coast, it never died out in these areas. the revived Irish in the rest of Ireland are standards based on deep academic study on the language that DID survive in the west.

Small enclaves survived but were always subject to the structured procedures of English-speaking institutions. I don't know what point YOU are making, but it seems to me that the survival , like the revival, is based on the most miniscule of native numbers... And that is my point! A language lost is really lost...

How easy you changed your tune - from 'concerned linguist' to Gaelic abuser in one breadth. It's so latin, almost Christian brotherish, isn't it? Who on earth is the 'We' you keep referring to????

The majority of the island used to speak this language but a wholesale shift to English and abandonment of Irish occured . The language that arose was English affected by elements of Irish grammar and pronunciation, called Hiberno-English. Now people learn Irish as a second language. They don't speak Irish with an English accent but with a Hiberno-English accent. Native speakers of language Y speaking language X with influence from language Y influenced by language X.

So that's why! Really informative, answered my question perfectly. Thanks a lot! =)

It's an interesting language. I'm must say that I was ignorant in the fact that I had no idea there was a language such as this. I just thought they spoke English with an Irish accent. Well, at least I'm learning new things!