http://cumanngaelachnaheaglaise.blogspot.com/2009/10/coi-delegation-meets-with-d up-uup-on.html

quote:

In late 2008/early 2009, a delegation from the Church of Ireland's Church in Society committee met with representatives from the UUP and DUP to put forward the Church's view on the Irish language. In particular, the view was put forward that an interest in the language could be entirely compatible with a unionist political outlook. The document may be read in full at http://www.ireland.anglican.org/cmsfiles/pdf/Information/Submissions/Ch_Soc/coii rish.pdf ). The report was presented to General Synod in May 2009.

The link again:
http://www.ireland.anglican.org/cmsfiles/pdf/Information/Submissions/Ch_Soc/coii rish.pdf

(I commented on the article Aonghus Dwane wrote re this on my blog.
http://aonghus.blogspot.com/2009/10/gaeilge-agus-feiniulacht.html

I welcome this kind of broadening of the discussion on Irish & Identity)

I wonder if the Anglicans coming into the Catholic Church will affect these trends, positively or negatively. Will it heat up old arguments or bring people together? Or will it not affect the status of the Irish language much at all?

Do thiocfadh forbairt den chineál sin go hiomlán le mo dhearcadh fhéin. Is féidir gnéithe de bhreis a chur le saol na Gaelainne gan dochar a dhéanamh don bhonn atá ann cheana féin.

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wonder if the Anglicans coming into the Catholic Church will affect these trends, positively or negatively.

I suspect that there are few Anglo Catholics in the Anglican Church in Ireland, and so there will be few converts due to the current tensions in the Anglican Communion. This paper on Irish is not a trend, but a re-statement of what has always been true about the Anglican Church in Ireland.

After all, there was a 1926 edition in Irish of the book of Common Prayer, not to metion things like the first printed book in Irish being an Anglican Cathechism.