TEACHING IRELAND IRISH. Will Irish become a living language again? During the past eight years the Irish Free State has spent approximately £250,000 in providing facilities for primary teachers to obtain the necessary qualifications to give instruction in Irish. About 9,000 of the 14,000 teachers employed in primary schools have taken advantage of these facilities and have cither the ordinary certificate, the i "ngual certificate, or the Ard Teastas, which is one of the higher certificates. There arc, however, about 5,100 teachers who were under thirty-three years of age in duly, 1922, who have not yet obtained the bilingual certificate, and of (hose, 1,000 have not obtained even the ordinary certificate. Woods’ Grom Peppermint Cure, first aid for coughs, colds, inlhicnza.—[Ad\ t.J
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Evening Star, Issue 20472, 1 May 1930, Page 6
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