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When did the Irish stop speaking Irish?

  • 01-01-2016 04:50PM
    #1
    Dots1982
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    I'm guessing it was sometime in the 19th century. Anyone know?


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  • #2
    BoJack Horseman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,247 ✭✭✭✭BoJack Horseman


    There was no line in the sand.... It was gradual decline.


  • #3
    Orangebrigade
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 280 ✭✭Orangebrigade


    1821.


  • #4
    The Backwards Man
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    They haven't


  • #5
    Harry Palmr
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    When it became profitable.


  • #6
    El Weirdo
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    3.15 pm


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  • #7
    ancapailldorcha
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 45,447 ✭✭✭✭ancapailldorcha


    I've read that it was on the decline before the English invasion. It was being supplanted by English which was associated with progress and modernisation at the time.

    The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the LORD your God.

    Leviticus 19:34



  • #8
    Dots1982
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,957 ✭✭✭Dots1982


    BoJack Horseman wrote: »
    There was no line in the sand.... It was gradual decline.

    Ok when did the majority stop speaking Irish?


  • #9
    Charles Babbage
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,420 ✭✭✭Charles Babbage


    ancapailldorcha wrote: »
    I've read that it was on the decline before the English invasion. It was being supplanted by English which was associated with progress and modernisation at the time.

    So the decline in Irish started before the 12th century? Perhaps you should read different books.


  • #10
    mad muffin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,034 ✭✭✭mad muffin


    'Twas the year of our lord 1662


  • #11
    whatismyname
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    Orangebrigade wrote: »
    1821.

    Nah, I think it was 1842.


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  • #12
    The Raptor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,433 ✭✭✭The Raptor


    It was when Peig came along.


  • #13
    TallGlass
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,906 ✭✭✭TallGlass


    My question is. How come the majority of Irish people cannot grasp a second language. I would love to speak Irish, German or French but I just can't do it. Is it because its just too easy most of the time other people speak English. I don't know but would love to speak another.


  • #14
    darkpagandeath
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    Would Irish not be a modern term anyway....


  • #15
    Ruu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,622 ✭✭✭Ruu


    Níl a fhios agam.


  • #16
    aaronjumper
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,128 ✭✭✭✭aaronjumper


    Ruu wrote: »
    Níl a fhios agam.
    My Irish teacher always regretted teaching me this phrase.


  • #17
    The Raptor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,433 ✭✭✭The Raptor


    Ruu wrote: »
    Níl a fhios agam.

    Je ne sais pas.

    I had more French than Irish.


  • #18
    DopeTech
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    July 19th


  • #19
    granturismo
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    As soon as the leaving cert was over.


  • #20
    cornholiooo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 150 ✭✭cornholiooo


    Would 1% of the Irish population be fluent irish speakers???


  • #21
    bilbot79
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    TallGlass wrote: »
    My question is. How come the majority of Irish people cannot grasp a second language. I would love to speak Irish, German or French but I just can't do it. Is it because its just too easy most of the time other people speak English. I don't know but would love to speak another.

    It takes a lot of effort when you don't live in the other country.


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  • #22
    Mantis Toboggan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 19,813 ✭✭✭✭Mantis Toboggan


    TallGlass wrote: »
    My question is. How come the majority of Irish people cannot grasp a second language. I would love to speak Irish, German or French but I just can't do it. Is it because its just too easy most of the time other people speak English. I don't know but would love to speak another.

    No English speaking country is good at learning other languages mainly because everything is in English and there's no need to learn!

    Free Palestine 🇵🇸



  • #23
    catbear
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,092 ✭✭✭catbear


    Post famine English was favoured over Irish in peoples homes. It was seen as a way to the world which had opened massively through globalized trade.

    It must be stressed though that English wasn't learned but adapted through Irish, hence Hiberno-English.


  • #24
    The Raptor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,433 ✭✭✭The Raptor


    bilbot79 wrote: »
    It takes a lot of effort when you don't live in the other country.

    What if you live in the country the language is spoken? In our case, Ireland.

    They don't do anything for promoting speaking Irish except seachtain na gaeilge. Just a week of Irish speaking. It should be made fun to speak it every day.


  • #25
    Caoimhgh1n
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,499 ✭✭✭✭Caoimhgh1n


    What does this have to do with After Hours?


  • #26
    c_man
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    The Raptor wrote: »
    They don't do anything for promoting speaking Irish except seachtain na gaeilge. Just a week of Irish speaking.

    Well it's usually two weeks in fairness. I know, I know...


  • #27
    MRnotlob606
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,642 ✭✭✭MRnotlob606


    nuair a chonaic mé do mháthair


  • #28
    The Raptor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,433 ✭✭✭The Raptor


    c_man wrote: »
    Well it's usually two weeks in fairness. I know, I know...

    Thanks for correcting me. But two weeks in the year isn't much, in Ireland. It should be every day of the year.

    You don't go to France to find that they speak French for two weeks in March.


  • #29
    [Deleted User]
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    Tyson Fury wrote: »
    No English speaking country is good at learning other languages mainly because everything is in English and there's no need to learn!
    Yep everything, there is no culture beyond the anglosphere.. such a sad thing to believe


  • #30
    masti123
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 661 ✭✭✭masti123


    Actually, in the 2011 census, 1.77 million people declared they could speak Irish.


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  • #31
    Caoimhgh1n
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,499 ✭✭✭✭Caoimhgh1n


    masti123 wrote: »
    Actually, in the 2011 census, 1.77 million people declared they could speak Irish.

    This is why you can never trust a census.


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