I was listening to some irish songs last night on youtube and…
EVERYONE LOVES IT! Literally everyone in the comments was begging us to keep the Gaeilge alive! It’s literally only us, the actual Irish, who are apathetic about Gaeilge. So, so much history and culture is held in the language and we’ve seen the greatest decline in Gaeilge since 1900, since the British left. The decline of Gaeilge is equally our fault is it is theirs. And it’s only going to decline faster and faster with all this international English language media being thrown at us everywhere, on social media, radio and television. The fact that I can set my phone and laptop’s language to Gaeilge and never see a word of it speaks for itself. One comment particularly struck me; “To lose a language is to lose a culture, to lose a culture is to lose a people.”
