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Death knell tolling for Irish as community language – expert
Fluent native speaker disturbed by witnessing the ‘death of Gaeltacht that I grew up in’
by Lorna Siggins
December 7, 2015

One of the last fluent native speakers in the Galway city Gaeltacht of Mionlach believes that Irish has just 10 years left as a community language.

Landscape gardener Pádraig Ó Fathaigh (57) is already the subject of linguistic research, as the youngest speaker retaining complete fluency in his home village of Mionlach or Menlo.

He takes no pleasure in witnessing what he describes as the “death of a Gaeltacht that I grew up in” due to lack of State commitment to Irish and the inseparable dominant influences of urbanisation and anglicisation.

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