More than 1 year ago, on my blog I asked the question “is Gaeilge the Irish Language?”. I have found only a few people who could speak Gaeilge and among them only 4 or 5 were speaking Irish in the daily life. The only city in the whole Ireland where I could hear Irish on the streets was Falls road, West Belfast. For us - Polish - language and history are most important elements of our national identity. So even after my 1,5 year of staying in Ireland I can not understand why Irish people don’t take care about their (or at least grand sons of the Gaelic population) own language. Of course I know all of the stroy about famine, extinction of the Gaelic population of Ireland and the massive emigration to America. Further, I know that it was much more needed to learn English than Irish, since people could emigrate to other English countries (I mean the language spoken). I know that Irish language was forbidden for centuries. It is all clear. However I found that in general Irish society doesn’t care about their language. At present “Celtic Tiger” is the leading European economy and power, and this is the time when you - Irish, could think about bringing back to life Gaeilge, but unfortunately , almost nobody is interested in that.
Thanks to one of the users of newly opened Irish-Polish discussion board I found a great film story by TG4 about one Chinese lad who learnt Irish and came to Ireland, and he was rather disappointed since he didn’t speak English at all.
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