A second chance for the Irish language
A second chance for the Irish language

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By Laura Kennedy (for the Irish Times)

I loathed Irish at school. Thirteen years of study created nothing but a cloying sense of being smothered by archaism. The way it was taught was limp and bred a sense of fear and stupidity into me that left me blaming the language for years after I finished school.

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