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Gaelscoil educated pupils - experiences after you leave?

  • 07-09-2015 8:31am
    #1
    pog it
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    Hey all,
    Just wondering if anyone here has been a pupil in a Gaelscoil and can tell me how you experienced the language after leaving the Gaelscoil.
    I went to an ordinary national school with the usual mix of really good and really useless teachers where it seemed that only one of the teachers truly enjoyed the language themselves, with the others going through the motions.
    So when I went to secondary school I didn't have any advantage on the Irish front on going in, and I just wonder how students who had a Gaelscoil education find life in secondary school, and after that?
    Do you find that it was an advantage, or a waste given such a lack of people you can speak to in general who have a decent competency in the language?

    Would be great to hear your opinions.


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  • #2
    Gumbi
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    I went to a Gaelscoil for primary school, obviously helped massively with Irish in secondary, but being that I'm a fluent speaker regardless I might not be the best example.


  • #3
    William F
    Closed Accounts Posts: 473 ✭✭William F


    Ya I went to one. It was nicknamed the GAYlscoil by the locals and some of the students.


  • #4
    Insect Overlord
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    William F wrote: »
    Ya I went to one. It was nicknamed the GAYlscoil by the locals and some of the students.

    There's a funny coincidence. I was talking to a teacher this morning who mentioned her students having the same problem! Childish stuff, but I suppose if it wasn't that they'd be coming up with some other silly nickname.


  • #5
    William F
    Closed Accounts Posts: 473 ✭✭William F


    I was just teasing with the first post. I would say my experience was positive for the most part. I haven't used the language since leaving school since it transpires that there are a far fewer fluent Irish speakers than there is made out to be.

    However the experience does instill a sense of Irishness in you. It's hard to explain. Lots of Irish people seem to identify with St Patricks Day as their national holiday yet we were never brought up with that belief.

    Our exposure was mainly to west of Ireland culture and customs and we had the minimum religious interference. Plus the schools weren't segregated.

    The experience gives you an interesting perspective of Ireland.


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