Look at the number of hits this has had in ten days! 198,068!

I apologise in advance for the links at the side..... It was inevitable with the name of the clip......

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMazVkH72_w

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I showed it to some of my students at school- they loved it....an-ghreannmhar!

Do chonac é seo seachtmhain nú dhó ó shin.

Dob' fhéidir go mbeadh an nasc so don bhfís níos oiriúnaighe,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2jYAGrc_QQ

ní'n na nascanna céanda air an dtaoibh le feisgint, ach is deacar an pictiúr laistiar don mhnaoi/ mhathair a sheachaint air aon nós

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Ní raibh 'fhios agam gurbh múinteoir scoile thú

What's really ironic about it is that the mother sounds like a native speaker (at least to my still-learning ears). Too bad she didn't teach the kid Irish at home.

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Its funny you say that, during the 40s, 50s, 60s and early 70s there was a huge initiative to recruit teachers from the Gaeltacht regions. This is evident if you read Maidhc Dainín's A Thig ná Tit Orm. Obviously, such an initiative now would be considered as discriminatory. That said, during my leaving cert and filling out my CAO application I remember our gairmtheoir teacher telling us that some university courses were 40 points lower if you lived within the limistéar of the Gaeltacht. I also remember my grandmother telling me that she received her education through Irish and that nearly all education was carried out through the medium of Irish in the earlier beginnings of the state. She was born sometime in the mid 30s. My mother and father were educated in English, though they were born in the early 60s.

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Yes, I've read that in 1922 (and in some places before that) all of the schools were converted essentially overnight to Irish-language schools, but they eventually had to give it up for lack of teachers who were fluent speakers (and, of course, the students in many areas would have been without much Irish then, even though their parents or grandparents might have been fluent speakers).

I also read recently that the British had allowed some schools to start teaching in Irish in the late 1800's, but that was probably in the stronger Gaeltacht areas for the most part.

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