4/10/2023 0 Comments Peig sayers hateIt wasn't written by that prolific scribe "anon", but by Peadar Ó Doirnín from South Armagh. If anyone knows where I can get a copy of it? I'd love to read it again, it's by 'anonymous' I think. The history of Irish was interesting too, maybe more of that instead of the old misery lit? and teh last verse is her response-as the teacher translated 'you hvaen't a big enough instrument for making children with'. Also a dirty last verse (basically a poet is trying to woo a lady and telling her all the lovely stuff he'll do for hear, milk and honey etc. I did love a poem we did for the LC, called Úr Conic Céin Mhic Cáinte (sp?), Beautifully lyrical piece. Irish writers in English are often just as bad for the old misery-Angela's Ashes anyone?! I didn't mind Peig too much, I though she was fairly inoffensive. The little I do speak comes in handy for discussing that sort of thing with my OH. That's my main reason for wanting to learn it. Hopefully things are changing in this regard and I know for instance that my nephews go to an All-Irish speaking school and it seems to be an excellent schoool. Indeed it would have been handy to discuss matters abroad with my other half without others people knowing what we were talking about before we came to a decision in Hotels and restaurants and things. However, after travelling to over 30 nations where everybody speaks their own language no matter how small the country I've changed my opinion although not about the facts that the Irish language should be not be just for the nutters and claimed by a certain section of society. Of course irish is going to die with this type of attitude or attract oddballs and diehards of a certain persuasion. You couldnt on the other hand, like going to football games ( soccer AH), Rock music, the BEEB, Granham Greene and speak Irish which is daft. It was like a fiddle playing, GAA loving, FF sporting culchie concept. They foisted that stupid book on us, the teachers were usually terrible but the main reason was that you had to conform to a certain view of being Irish to speak Irish. I cant speak a word of Irish and was always very anti saving the Irish language for loads of reasons.
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