Originally Posted by
Dark Snyper Lord 666
ive seen otherwise, and there is a good amount of cool irish language media and songs, not like corny "riverdance" type stuff.
ive met people from ireland my age who are decent at it, and theyre just average university educated people.
the census forms and land allotment forms from the 1800s in ireland indicate whether a family and its members speak/read/write english/irish or both. there was a lot of pressure at the time to actually adopt english or to not claim that you speak irish, i think financial incentives if you indicated that you had switched to english as your language, so hard to say how accurate they are, but my ancestors in the mid 1800s wrote that they spoke english at home. interesting
sadly, i know the image of irish culture has been totally popularized and caricaturized over decades, so it has a strong element of cringe if you take interest in "irish culture" at all. hopefully in a short time it can be taken more legitimately.
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