And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Not "Great Hunger" - Great English Hanging and taking their food. And arresting and sell hundred of thousands as slave in the English colonies. https://europeansworldwide.wordpress.com/2020/01/15/the-irish-holocaust-no-one-mentions/
Same thing happened to Brooklyn-ees....it's almost gone!
ReplyDeleteThat overstates it a wee bit.
ReplyDeleteIrish Gaelic is still pretty prevalent throughout the country, but most folks there are fully English-fluent.
I suspect that's a map of people who only speak the Gael, not of those who speak it at all.
Probably many of those included in "pretty prevalent" can understand it, but would have a hard time actually conversing in it. Just a wag.
DeleteBy all accounts, they would have no such hard time, it's compulsory through high school level education in the free republic.
DeleteAbout 40% can speak and understand it, but it's only about 2% who use Irish daily or solely.
It's spelt: "Clare". John.
ReplyDeleteAnd so the world goes...
ReplyDeletemy father born in ireland in the early 1930's had to learn irish ,latin and english in school
ReplyDeleteThe Irish are the most woke folks in the EU. Of course their language will disappear. So will they. They will exist only in books and old movies.
ReplyDeleteNot "Great Hunger" - Great English Hanging and taking their food.
ReplyDeleteAnd arresting and sell hundred of thousands as slave in the English colonies.
https://europeansworldwide.wordpress.com/2020/01/15/the-irish-holocaust-no-one-mentions/