Seo naisc chuig an tríú halt den tsraith Ag Déileáil le FrithGhaelachas:
"Irish is a peasant language".

Leagan Gaeilge
http://www.insideireland.ie/index.cfm/section/news/ext/irishpeasantlanguage002/c ategory/4047

Leagan Béarla
http://www.insideireland.ie/index.cfm/section/news/ext/irishpeasantlanguage001/c ategory/4048

Thanks for the link Aonghus. Peasant and proud I am. Why, I even call my native football 'football' and never feel the need to use the media term Peil Ghaelach which seems especially to have been an RTÉism that entered our everyday language ( outside the Pale at least) when The Premiership came into being. Are we to believe that those who invented, if thats the correct term, Association Football/Soccer were the first to get the idea of kicking an object around for the purposes of sporting entertainment? I concede nothing to those people and their lackies in this country.
You will hear Americans and Australians refer to their native football as 'football'. So too it was here in the not too distant past.
RTÉ mo thóin, Radio Telifís England more likely!
I'm probably too old to properly understand what people really mean when they say that Irish is cool/uncool/sexy. I just know that I love this beautiful language and that I will do my level best to learn it properly and to pass it on, sentiments I'm sure are shared by this forum.
Thanks again Aonghus, as people have remarked on your 10,000th blog, you are a treasure yourself. Go n-éirí leat.
DMD

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Irish speakers accept the most outrageous abuse for the same reason that other groups in society used to, because that's how things have always been. But that's not how things have to be in the future.

I like this conclusion. I think this says it. In a polite and civilized way, you've got to lay down your ground and tell people you will not be insulted. I wonder if some people throw out the insults because of their own poverty, that is, linguistic poverty.

A Dmd,ba cheart duit a bheith an-bhródúil as duit féin,mar is dócha go bhfuil alán Éireannaigh bróduil asat-agus bheadh sé tuilte agat.

Is teanga álainn an Gaeilge,agus beimíd go léir anseo ag labhairt chomh minic agus is féidir.

**** the begrudgers.