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BUT NATIVES OF ERIN DECLINE TO TRY IT. LONDON, Saturday. Despite 10 years' work, the attempt to revive Gaelic as Ireland's national language so far has failed. "If we want to make it the language of the Free State we must hurry up," declared Mr. Derrig, Minister for Education, at the Cork I11dustrial Fair. Only 3 per cent. of the children of the primary schools are learning two or more subjeets in Gaelic." Half the schools, added Mx\ Derrig, did not even do the main work in Gaelic. Only the psoples' co-opera-tion would ensure its revival. Irish must be spoken everywhere — in the publie administration, shops, ehurches, and, ahove all, in the homes. Lord Ashhourne, speaking in both Gaelic and English, urged that Gaelic must dominate the whole country, and be ahove parties and boundaries. That was the only way to make Trcland really Irish? he said,
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 299, 12 August 1932, Page 3
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