The Language Movement
The sttody of the Irish language has been warmly taken up and is flourishing amongst the Irish residents in the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge. It is announced in this year's programme for Irish National schools that the Commissioners have appointed a special staff of Irish Inspectors whose sole duty will be to examine in Irish. This is an important concession and shows how determined the people are to learn their native language. Eighty years ago, >a child leceived a stroke of the birch for every word uttered in the vernacular. M.B.
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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXII, Issue 12, 24 March 1904, Page 10
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95The Language Movement New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXII, Issue 12, 24 March 1904, Page 10
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