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markedasred t1_j1m0eqh wrote

Reply to comment by JohnPeteyMcMule in Séan Ó hEinirí possibly being the last known monolingual Irish speaker before his death in 1998 , Kilgalligan, County Mayo, Republic of Ireland, 1985 by Agreeable_Tank229

so you can change my "Irish people speak Gaelic", which is factual based on self reporting in the 2016 Irish census with your " There is only 10’s of thousands of native Irish speakers left" opinion? You not only use no source, but also change the parameters. I notice I always get downvoted when I use checked facts on here. I left Ireland when my son was 5 years old, but he could already talk in Irish to our older neighbours son to a small extent. If we had stayed there I suspect he would easily have become bilingual, as he now is in French as the 2nd language.

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JohnPeteyMcMule t1_j1m8wjf wrote

You didn’t though you checked Google and ran with the first thing you saw. I’m not doing the research for you, I’m Irish I live in Ireland and I know this for a fact. I used to spend my summers in the gealtacht and it’s not Gaelic is Gaeilge.

I’m sure 1.9 million Irish people can speak a word or 2 of Irish but there’s probably only about 70,000 native Irish speakers (people who speak it in their day to day lives).

Check Wikipedia and come back to me but I’m just pointing out facts and as the person put it above they can speak basic Irish but I can also speak basic French and German. We just like to claim we can speak Irish because we spent 11/12 years learning it in school.

Source: I’m Irish and live in Ireland.

Happy Christmas!

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