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http://www.utvlive.com/newsroom/indepth ... 76553&pt=n
Today part of the Falls Road in West Belfast became designated Belfast's Gaeltacht Quarter.
http://www.utvlive.com/newsroom/indepth ... 76553&pt=n
Apart from being known as a "gaeltacht quarter", what has changed ? Do folks living in it get paid to speak the language, or will certain houses be for Irish speakers only ?
It's a pity it didn't happpen years ago.Originally Posted by Darren Mac an Phríora
We wouldn't have seen grafitti like "Chucky Our Law"
[quote=White Horse]It's a pity it didn't happpen years ago.
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We wouldn't have seen grafitti like "Chucky Our Law"[/quote:1zj18z0c]
or 'England's difficulty is Ireland's opera tune'
The link covers the story well, Mise Eire, unlike the coverage on TV3 today. You'd swear Sinn Féin were trying to super-impose an artificial Gaeltacht on the area the way they were going on.
Its going to be a Gaeltacht Quarter- the fourth and last in the city. Obviously, the potential is there for Irish to become the primary language in the area in the longer-term but the area is not a Gaeltacht now.
Certainly seems fair enough if that's all that's involved - as you say, the hype is more likely to be the problem rather than the actuality. Seems a bit of a misnomer to label it "gaeltacht". The Story of the Falls area is rich and fascinating and deserves to be preserved and celebrated. It'll be a shame if SF mire it down with their partisan approach.
It depends how its marketed, whether it be by SF or anyone else. If people start marketing it like a Gaeltacht then it will get ridiculed. I believe that the coverage today by TV3, and to a lesser extent RTE, will have people laughing a bit.
Of course if I lived there I would see it as my own little Gaeltacht, but to actually market it as a Gaeltacht- as opposed to a Gaeltacht Quarter- is bad marketing for the area, the language and the real Gaeltacht.
Jake from Forbairt Feirste spelt it out clearly to UTV there. It's been some of the media that have taken it up wrong. Forbairt Feirste are doing excellent work marketing the Irish language in Belfast. Along with Gael-Taca and Gaillimh Le Gaeilge they are doing the best marketing of the language in the country. There are some others as well.
I wrote a letter in the Examiner the other day about the state of marketing Irish in the country.
Good point about the media. I'll have a root about and see what is being said . Your letter went way above my head - I don't understand where FG come into it, sorry.
Yea sorry, its a bit out of context for this particular issue. I meant that the current debate, in the South, about the language is about FG's policy to end its status as a required subject for the Leaving Cert. The letter was about that issue but I emphasied the importance of marketing and the lack of emphasis of it within Conradh na Gaeilge and most Irish language organisations.
It didn't take long for the Unionists to complain. Wait to see what will happen next. Those loony Unionists who think that Ulster Scots is actually a language when its actually a dialect of English will demand an Ulster-Scots quarter on the Skankill Road or Ballymena!
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