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Some notable fluent Irish language speakers. List. Vincent Barry (1908–1975), scientist [2] Páraic Breathnach (b. 1956), Irish actor, performer, writer and ...
Shelta (/ ˈ ʃ ɛ l t ə /; [2] Irish: Seiltis) [3] is a language spoken by Irish Travellers (Mincéirí), particularly in Ireland and the United Kingdom. [4] It is widely known as the Cant, to its native speakers in Ireland as de Gammon or Tarri, and to the linguistic community as Shelta. [5]
Nuala Considine (10 October 1927 – 24 July 2018) was an Irish woman considered to be the world's most prolific crossword compiler. [1] She produced crossword puzzles for newspapers and magazines across Europe and the United States, including The Irish Times, The Telegraph, The Spectator, The Financial Times, Woman's Realm, The Washington Post and New Scientist. [2]
In 1994, he won the Irish Times National Debating Championship and The Irish Times/Gael Linn National Irish language debating championship; he is a fluent Irish speaker, and speaks to his father only in that language. [10] He played both Gaelic football and hurling for Bray Emmets [11] and hurling for the Wicklow County minor team. [12]
This is a list of European languages by the number of native speakers in Europe only. List. Rank Name ... Irish: 1,873,997 (census) [45] 240,000 [46] 40 Latvian:
This is a list of writers either born in Ireland or holding Irish citizenship, who have a Wikipedia page. Writers whose work is in Irish are included. Writers whose work is in Irish are included. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
Verona Murphy has become the first female speaker of the Irish parliament as part of attempts to form a coalition government. Ms Murphy, an independent TD for Wexford, defeated two Fianna Fail ...
A fluent Irish speaker, Páraic grew up in Carna, County Galway. As a student in University of Galway , he was deeply involved with An Cumann Drámaíochta and Dramsoc, where he teamed up with Ollie Jennings in a series of cultural initiatives in and out of college.