Compulsory Irish was all wrong for our national psyche
The fact few of us can competently converse in our native tongue is most likely an inheritance from a dismal education system obsessed with grammar and vexatious complications.
Seachtain na Gaeilge has once again crept up on us. This is when we are expected to get a little misty-eyed about our linguistic inheritance, while the commentariat bemoan the fact that few of us can competently converse in our native tongue. Most likely, this failure is an inheritance from a dismal education system obsessed with grammar and vexatious complications such as briathra neamhrialta, and the dreaded modh coinníollach.
Actually, I find it hard to blame Irish people for not making a greater effort, for when I was at school, I didn’t care much for ár dteanga féin either.
