The Editor is from the Baile Bhúirne / Cúil Aodha district of Cork. There is a small fíor-Ghaeltacht surviving there even if most of the official Gaeltacht is in fact English speaking. I think (but I'm not certain) he came from an Irish speaking family.
A people without a language of its own is only half a nation.A nation should guard its language more than its territories, 'tis a surer barrier and a more important frontier than mountain or river