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    We kept our national identity?

    I'm fiercely proud of been irish I come form an area where gaa scor etc where our life blood where I learned set dancing and never read a sheat of music till I was playing music years learning instead by ear.. at chirstmas it's irish I speak with my neighbours and i'm a fiercely proud gealgoir I love everything about culture our myths our ways how we celebrate our dead our traditions
    But these even at my young age are alien to most
    I see this as a travesty.. I curse alot but I see fuck as my chIsle towards the oppresion of the English language. What a beauitful native tongue we have but no one speaks it? Tonight I'd the opportunity to converse in my native tongue while joyus leaves me saddened why and how did we loose our identity? Irish is taught appallingly in schools and only for my background am I a fluent speaker nut even in my family we speak less and less it's almost become private moments with my father when we converse only in irish
    I set dance play music and speak my native tongue but I fear I'm but of a few who does will irish and our culture be gone are the days of wakes at home stopping clocks covering mirrors dying

    Never forget your roots for they support each leaf we have one of the most unique and beauitful cultures and we watch it die without a care very sad


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    nice post annabel
    what instrument do you play

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    Quote Originally Posted by tom sand View Post
    nice post annabel
    what instrument do you play
    Lots of them...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Irish Josephine View Post
    In red is a must.
    Hotel "Family Gatherings" are sad but seem to be getting popular.
    I have great memories of old peoples wakes all noise and tales, now it is Hotels and good behaviour, sad.

    I miss the way my grandparents and older family spoke, going for a dander, so many lost phrases.
    I speak irish my younger neighbours I'd a terrific teacher at school history and when he was teaching us about the irish revival how irish became sexy I wish we could have that how many Europeans speak there native tongue plus english been bi lingual as a child is awesome
    I just find it all very sad I will make sure no matter where I am my children will speak irish know there culture

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    Well said Annabel .a proud Irish girl. Yes I went to the Gaeity to scor finals myself

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    Love that song in Irish.

    Funny thing how some clients moan about escorts not advertising their real nationality when they don't even speak their own language. No offence.
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    Quote Originally Posted by annabel taylor View Post
    We kept our national identity?

    I'm fiercely proud of been irish I come form an area where gaa scor etc where our life blood where I learned set dancing and never read a sheat of music till I was playing music years learning instead by ear.. at chirstmas it's irish I speak with my neighbours and i'm a fiercely proud gealgoir I love everything about culture our myths our ways how we celebrate our dead our traditions
    But these even at my young age are alien to most
    I see this as a travesty.. I curse alot but I see fuck as my chIsle towards the oppresion of the English language. What a beauitful native tongue we have but no one speaks it? Tonight I'd the opportunity to converse in my native tongue while joyus leaves me saddened why and how did we loose our identity? Irish is taught appallingly in schools and only for my background am I a fluent speaker nut even in my family we speak less and less it's almost become private moments with my father when we converse only in irish
    I set dance play music and speak my native tongue but I fear I'm but of a few who does will irish and our culture be gone are the days of wakes at home stopping clocks covering mirrors dying

    Never forget your roots for they support each leaf we have one of the most unique and beauitful cultures and we watch it die without a care very sad

    maybe its the whiskey talking here but- fuck me i almost cried reading this!! so well said. I'm ashamed to say i can hardly speak a word even though i had 2 years of irish at high school. Never too late to learn i suppose

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    Quote Originally Posted by annabel taylor View Post
    We kept our national identity?

    I'm fiercely proud of been irish I come form an area where gaa scor etc where our life blood where I learned set dancing and never read a sheat of music till I was playing music years learning instead by ear.. at chirstmas it's irish I speak with my neighbours and i'm a fiercely proud gealgoir I love everything about culture our myths our ways how we celebrate our dead our traditions
    But these even at my young age are alien to most
    I see this as a travesty.. I curse alot but I see fuck as my chIsle towards the oppresion of the English language. What a beauitful native tongue we have but no one speaks it? Tonight I'd the opportunity to converse in my native tongue while joyus leaves me saddened why and how did we loose our identity? Irish is taught appallingly in schools and only for my background am I a fluent speaker nut even in my family we speak less and less it's almost become private moments with my father when we converse only in irish
    I set dance play music and speak my native tongue but I fear I'm but of a few who does will irish and our culture be gone are the days of wakes at home stopping clocks covering mirrors dying

    Never forget your roots for they support each leaf we have one of the most unique and beauitful cultures and we watch it die without a care very sad

    Hi irish bhean sexy , is breá liom gach rud hÉireann go speisialta na weemen ,,, a dhéanann tú a choinneáil i gcónaí ar an bata camán faoi leaba

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    Quote Originally Posted by Irish Josephine View Post
    Offence can only be taken if a person cares what the other thinks, no offence taken xx
    You should care your own language is not spoken anymore x
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    Quote Originally Posted by annabel taylor View Post
    I speak irish my younger neighbours I'd a terrific teacher at school history and when he was teaching us about the irish revival how irish became sexy I wish we could have that how many Europeans speak there native tongue plus english been bi lingual as a child is awesome
    I just find it all very sad I will make sure no matter where I am my children will speak irish know there culture
    The same process has long been ongoing around the world and in recent times is still ongoing even in Europe. In 1750 only half the people in what is now France spoke French, the rest spoke Alsation German, Provencal, Breton or Basque. The French rather successfully, in their nation state building have eclipsed these languages.
    In Spain the Castilians have long been determined to impose their language. Catalonian nationalism is however maintaining /reviving Catalan. The most ancient language of Europe, Basque is holding on but only just.
    The irresistible force of English is meeting the very movable object of the Irish language. In time to come it is likely the last everyday users of Irish will be people who use it as a learned language, a '' hobby''.
    Lack of economic opportunity in the Western seaboard, where most Gaeltacht areas are located, will probably continue to drain young people from these places, with their children subsequently growing up as non speakers.
    The story of the last 170 years. Anyway an interesting post and if we are ever so fortunate as to trade insults again, I shall do so '' as Gaeilge''.
    Unfortunately, someone speaking English as a second language will probably remove such posts.
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    Shalom/salaam.
    10,000 years of Middle Eastern civilisation and the place is not at peace but rather in pieces.

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