Ó ghlúin go glúin

Why is Irish spoken in the home and not in the market-place by Gaeilgeoiri?

The answer is simple: Irish is the language of the hearth, a personal treasured heritage which is not of the mores of capitalist, modernist times.

As modernism has declined and we speak and see with a new spirituality, Irish begins to emerge from the closet after eight hundred years of retreat and withdrawal.

Irish will again be spoken openly in our times and in our towns but not until the old-new beast of modernism and war has finally retreated  back to its base to re-emerge at some indefinite time in the future.


Joseph Paul McCarroll