BabyE wrote: » We do need to keep our heritage in the wake of an increasingly global world. The richness of our worldwide future culture depends on it.
Wilberto wrote: » Yes, because that's entirely the fault of the language. No blame can be placed on the instigator at all. :rolleyes: That could be down to the fact that corporal punishment was banned in 1982 however, and made a criminal offence in 1996, but go on, continue to infer that your "miserable schooling" experience is due to learning a language. :rolleyes::rolleyes:
katemarch wrote: » We've absorbed Norman children, before that Viking children, more recently Huguenot children, English and Scots --
byhookorbycrook wrote: » Junior infants in English speaking schools do not use written Irish. I don't see how welcoming other nationalities into the country has to mean losing our "cultural heritage?"
Harvey Normal wrote: » Ethnicity != culture.
Oldtrope wrote: » I live in a very rural part of Ireland as many of you know,
Oldtrope wrote: » I live in a very rural part of Ireland as many of you know, the village I live in can have no more than 500 homes in the surrounding area... For Ireland the words were wrote in English, no Gaelige anywhere. Nearly every mother I spoke too were foreign, .
Deleted User wrote: » What's Gaelige, is it not Gaeilge?
meeeeh wrote: » Anyway I'll eat my umbrella if there is rural village in Ireland with majority of foreign population.
Oldtrope wrote: » I live in a very rural part of Ireland as many of you know, the village I live in can have no more than 500 homes in the surrounding area. This morning I took my Granddaughter to school, its her first year and she is junior Infants. What I witnessed was shocking and upsetting. The classroom was nicely laid out but everywhere I looked foreign words were displayed all over the walls with pictures of flags and their name in their language. For Ireland the words were wrote in English, no Gaelige anywhere. I enjoy talking to some of the other parents as I have done in the past when I took one of my grandsons to the school in the past, today was much different. Nearly every mother I spoke too were foreign, I encountered a lot of Eastern Europeans, a few Brazilians, and some English. If I had to put a number on it I would say the majority of the classroom had foreign children with only a small percentage of Irish children. I waited to speak to the teacher, I wanted to know why Ireland was represented in English and not Gaelige. When she arrived she was welcoming and appeared almost happy someone had finally asked her the question. She told me that because the majority of the classroom could speak very little English they had to use their own languages to welcome them and make them feel at home, English was the 2nd language that all children must learn and so even Irish has to be represented in English. They do still teach Irish as part of the curriculum, but it is only taught at the bare minimum acceptance level as it was no use to the classroom because the majority of the children had been exempted by the school governors and the department of Education. I asked her why were there so many non Irish children, she replied to me that if I thought this was bad then I should look at the bigger towns and Cities where the problem was far worse. This is madness, we are losing our cultural heritage and now our children are minorities in their own schools and suffering because of it.
pickarooney wrote: » You can't even spell Gaeilge you thundering hypocrite.
Oldtrope wrote: » This is madness, we are losing our cultural heritage and now our children are minorities in their own schools and suffering because of it.
Schoolyards slowly going the way of Hamsterdam is what I hear.
Arcade_Tryer wrote: » Yours maybe, not mine. Nor my family. Nor my friends. And we all live in a rural area of Ireland too. A lot of the "cultural heritage" of Ireland has failed to remain relevant in its own right, or on its own merit, despite millions being spent trying to promote, nay, save it. So much money that could be spent on current, modern culture and the arts. But instead we squander it out of some kind of misguided mixture of nationalistic pity and pride. And because of the Brits the bastards of course. If that is your idea of Irish culture, the culture is dead. And it definitely is dead.
HellSquirrel wrote: ??? Full of small rodents? Full of weed?
HellSquirrel wrote: I suppose I can believe that.
Dope fiends everywhere. Omar be callin real soon yo.
Oldtrope wrote: For Ireland the words were wrote in English, no Gaelige anywhere.
Harvey Normal wrote: » Gort Co Galway. 40% Brazilian at one stage.https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gort
