Compulsory Irish was all wrong for our national psyche
We have a long history of rejecting that which is imposed upon us: Norman Conquest, Protestant Reformation, Act of Union and Guinness Light, writes John G O’Dwyer
The fact few of us can competently converse in our native tongue is most likely an inheritance from a dismal education system obsessed with grammar and vexatious complications.
Thu, 04 Mar, 2021 - 17:30
Seachtain na Gaeilge has once again crept up on us. This is when we are expected to get a little misty-eyed about our linguistic inheritance, while the commentariat bemoan the fact that few of us can competently converse in our native tongue. Most likely, this failure is an inheritance from a dismal education system obsessed with grammar and vexatious complications such as briathra neamhrialta, and the dreaded modh coinníollach.
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