Colm O'Regan: In teaching my daughter, I'm learning that Irish can be fun

"I’m not saying old Irish is everyone's bag, but once I stop thinking of Irish as a school language, and more as one of the oldest continuously spoken languages in Europe, it gives the whole thing more meaning."

I'm proud of my daughter's efforts to learn. 

"Tá an bosca dearg. Tá an peann gorm," says my daughter. "Maith an cailín," says I and press the stop-recording button on the phone and upload the video back to her teacher.

There is a small fear, with home-schooling, that 'things have changed since our day'. You'd be afraid that you'd make an eejit out of yourself in the homework video, in case, the next day, there's a gentle message from the teacher on the SeeSaw (a home-school learning app), saying: "And just a little reminder to the mammies and daddies and minders that an apple tree won't grow in your belly if you swallow the pips."