NATIONAL LANGUAGE

Feilding Star, Volume 9, Issue 2796, 13 August 1932, Page 6

NATIONAL LANGUAGE

ADVOCACY OF GAELIC LONG EFFORTS A FAILURE * ..... N / London, August 10. In spite of 10 years’ work the attempt to revive Gaelic as Ireland’s national language sci far has failed. “If we want to make it the language of the Free State wc mifi hurry up,” declared Air Dert'ig, Minister u! Education, at the Cork Industrial Fair. ‘‘Only 3 per cent, of the children of the primary, schools are learning t»o or more subjects 131 Gaelic.}’ Half the schools did not even do the nui'.n, work in Gaelic. Only, the people’s co- qn ration would ensure Us revival. Irish must be spoken everywhere -.in the public administration, id rip . churches, and, above all. in the homes. Lord Ashbourne, speaking both (n Gso ic a,ltd EiUgl’sh, urged that Gaelic must dominate the whole country, jyid bo above parties and boundaries. That was ( the only way to make Ireland really Irish, be said.