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- On 1 January 2022, Irish received full status as a working language of the EU joining the other 23 official languages of the EU. It is, however, among those least routinely spoken of the official languages of the European Union with there being only 1 Irish speaking MEP out of the total number of 13 Irish MEP's in the 2019–2024 European Parliament. [better source needed]
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- The Tudors. Having survived the Norman invasions of the 12th century, the Irish language remained dominant on the island, thanks in part to being used by the native Gaelic ruling class.
- The Banishment of the Gaelic Rulers. Descendants of old Gaelic clans, the Ulster chiefs ruled the north and were the most influential native Irish leaders remaining.
- The Penal Laws. While there were various decrees against Irish Catholics to tamp their freedoms (e.g. Statutes of Kilkenny in 1366), the Irish Penal Laws, particularly from 1695 onwards, made them official and widespread.
- The Establishment of National Schools. In 1831, the founding of the National School system further accelerated the decline of the Irish language. “Tally sticks”, referred to as “an bata scoir”, were used to beat children caught speaking Irish.
Some 6,000 people (0.3%) in Northern Ireland claim to use Irish as their main home language according to the 2021 UK Census with 71,900 people being able to speak Irish (circa 4% of population) and 228,600 people overall in the state (12.4%) having some knowledge of the language.
Sep 14, 2010 · Here we ask why the Irish language first lost its pre-eminent position in Ireland and then declined almost to the point of extinction. Factors often cited are the famine of th 1840s, emmigration and the introduction of English-speaking compulsory National Schools in the 1830s.
The Anglo Norman conquest started a period of multilingualism in Ireland, but Irish remained in the ascendancy and, gradually, the Normans began to speak Irish. By the start of the sixteenth century most of the people of Ireland were Irish speakers again.
The history of the Irish language begins with the period from the arrival of speakers of Celtic languages in Ireland to Ireland's earliest known form of Irish, Primitive Irish, which is found in Ogham inscriptions dating from the 3rd or 4th century AD. [1]
Jan 31, 2023 · The origins of the Irish language can be traced back to the 4th century AD, when it evolved from a common Celtic language spoken by the ancient Celts who lived in Ireland. The Irish language...
The disappearance in about two generations of a language which had been spoken throughout the land for at least fifteen hundred years. There were over four million speaking Irish in 1840. It...
