Irish language
Emerald Isle speech
Irish is the Celtic language native to Ireland, also called Irish Gaelic or simply Gaelic.
It was the dominant language of Ireland for centuries before English colonization gradually displaced it.
Today Irish is an official language of the Republic of Ireland and the European Union, taught in schools and spoken natively in scattered regions called Gaeltachtaí.
She learned Irish as a child in Connemara.
- native speakerOne who grew up speaking it
- ConnemaraIrish Atlantic coastal region
- DonegalCounty in northwest Ireland
- heritageInherited cultural legacy
- craicIrish word for fun
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- Irish HistoryGreat Famine, Easter Rising, home rule, republicanism, IRA
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