“ I do not share the wish to see my language dead and decently buried. ”
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“ We are told that the keeping alive a language spoken by so small a number of the community is a barrier to progress. ”
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“ We are told that the keeping alive a language spoken by so small a number of the community is a barrier to progress. ”
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“ We are told that the keeping alive a language spoken by so small a number of the community is a barrier to progress. ”
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“ We must put pressure upon our politicians not to snuff out by their tacit discouragement merely because they do not happen to understand it. ”
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“ Every crag and gnarled tree and lonely valley has its own strange and graceful legend attached to it. ”
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“ I believe for example that the character of the people has deteriorated in the east of the County Leitrim and in the County Lonford, where Irish died out a generation ago. ”
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“ Now if we allow our living language to die out, it is almost a certainty that we condemn our literary records to remain in obscurity. ”
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“ I cannot conceive a more acute pain in the power of sentiment to inflict than that which I should feel if, after a life passed in England or the colonies or India, I were to come back to my native mountains and find that the indifference or the actual discouragement of our leaders had succeeded in destroying the language of my childhood. ”
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“ I - and there are hundreds of thousands of Irishmen who felt on this subject as I do - have always liked my Celtic countrymen and disliked the English nation; it is a national trait of character, and I cannot help it. ”
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“ I - and there are hundreds of thousands of Irishmen who felt on this subject as I do - have always liked my Celtic countrymen and disliked the English nation; it is a national trait of character, and I cannot help it. ”
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“ As our language wanes and dies, the golden legends of the far-off centuries fade and pass away. No one sees their influence upon culture; no one sees their educational power. ”
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“ As our language wanes and dies, the golden legends of the far-off centuries fade and pass away. No one sees their influence upon culture; no one sees their educational power. ”
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“ Every crag and gnarled tree and lonely valley has its own strange and graceful legend attached to it. ”
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“ Now if we allow our living language to die out, it is almost a certainty that we condemn our literary records to remain in obscurity. ”
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“ As our language wanes and dies, the golden legends of the far-off centuries fade and pass away. No one sees their influence upon culture; no one sees their educational power. ”
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“ It is a most disgraceful shame the way in which Irishmen are brought up. They are ashamed of their language, institutions, and of everything Irish. ”
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“ It is a most disgraceful shame the way in which Irishmen are brought up. They are ashamed of their language, institutions, and of everything Irish. ”
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“ It is a most disgraceful shame the way in which Irishmen are brought up. They are ashamed of their language, institutions, and of everything Irish. ”
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“ Every crag and gnarled tree and lonely valley has its own strange and graceful legend attached to it. ”
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“ We must put pressure upon our politicians not to snuff out by their tacit discouragement merely because they do not happen to understand it. ”
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“ I cannot conceive a more acute pain in the power of sentiment to inflict than that which I should feel if, after a life passed in England or the colonies or India, I were to come back to my native mountains and find that the indifference or the actual discouragement of our leaders had succeeded in destroying the language of my childhood. ”
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“ I believe for example that the character of the people has deteriorated in the east of the County Leitrim and in the County Lonford, where Irish died out a generation ago. ”
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“ I acknowledge that it gives me a pang of sorrow to see the language of the bards and brehons, of the Saints and Sages, the language of Rory O'More, of Patrick Sarsfield, and Owen Roe O'Neill, the best men that Ireland ever produced, kicked contemptuously aside, crawling away, as it were, with a broken leg to die, like a hunted dog in a ditch, a vile and lingering death. ”
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“ I believe for example that the character of the people has deteriorated in the east of the County Leitrim and in the County Lonford, where Irish died out a generation ago. ”
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“ What we want in Ireland is a National University which will bring students together and educate them upon national lines. ”
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“ Now if we allow our living language to die out, it is almost a certainty that we condemn our literary records to remain in obscurity. ”
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“ It is a most disgraceful shame the way in which Irishmen are brought up. They are ashamed of their language, institutions, and of everything Irish. ”
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“ How many Irishmen are there who would purchase material prosperity at such a price? It is exactly such a question as this and the answer to it that shows the difference between the English and Irish race. Nine Englishmen out of ten would jump to make the exchange, and I firmly believe that nine Irishmen out of ten would indignantly refuse it. ”
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