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Aonghus
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Username: Aonghus
Post Number: 9301
Registered: 08-2004
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Danny2007
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Username: Danny2007
Post Number: 460
Registered: 12-2007
| | Posted on Thursday, December 03, 2009 - 11:26 pm: |
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GRMA.
Any idea why Conchubhar interviewed the General Secretary of Conradh na Gaeilge in ENGLISH??
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Trigger
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Username: Trigger
Post Number: 463
Registered: 10-2007
| | Posted on Friday, December 04, 2009 - 08:17 am: |
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That don't make sense at all.
Gaeilge go deo!
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Aonghus
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Username: Aonghus
Post Number: 9303
Registered: 08-2004
| | Posted on Friday, December 04, 2009 - 01:31 pm: |
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It makes perfect sense. The debate needs to be brought to the majority of the people of Ireland, who cannot follow arguments in Irish.
For too long discussion of the langauge in the English media has been reactive - to the Irish forced down my throat brigade.
Irish speakers know what Julian de Spáinn has to say. English speakers don't. |
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Trigger
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Username: Trigger
Post Number: 464
Registered: 10-2007
| | Posted on Friday, December 04, 2009 - 02:04 pm: |
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It would have been better if he was interviewed in Irish, it defeats the purpose a lot.
Subtitles would have been good.
But maybe you are right for English speakers to understand.
Gaeilge go deo!
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Danny2007
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Username: Danny2007
Post Number: 461
Registered: 12-2007
| | Posted on Friday, December 04, 2009 - 11:03 pm: |
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In fairness, a youtube clip on iGaeilge isn't going to reach a wide audience anyway.
Maybe he was just looking to mix it up as the interview with Éamonn Mac Niallais was in Irish, as one would expect.
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Aonghus
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Username: Aonghus
Post Number: 9306
Registered: 08-2004
| | Posted on Saturday, December 05, 2009 - 06:07 am: |
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No. I gave his reasons as he gave them.
We can only work with the materials we have. You'd be surprised at his reach. Articles he wrote on iGaeilge have been referred to (usually without attribution) in main line English language papers before.
And he has written articles for the Irish Examiner and the Sunday Independent. |
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