Séan Ó hEinirí possibly being the last known monolingual Irish speaker before his death in 1998 , Kilgalligan, County Mayo, Republic of Ireland, 1985JohnPeteyMcMule t1_j1m8wjf wrote
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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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