Schools
Irish As a Dying Language
After yesterday's St. Patrick's Day Parade in South Boston, Siobhán Donovan ('16) worries about the future of Ireland's language.
by Siobhán Donovan
Class of 2016
Irish, as the Irish call it, or Gaelic, as Americans call it, was once widely spoken across Ireland, but today it is only spoken, daily, in remote areas on Ireland’s west coast. These Irish-speaking areas are called Gaeltacht and the people living in these areas who speak Irish in their day to day lives only make up two percent of Ireland’s population. And that number is decreasing, even though Irish is taught in schools in Ireland. Irish is a dying language and I would hate to see it disappear completely.
