Gaeltacht
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A Gaeltacht is a district of Ireland, either individually or collectively, where the Irish government recognises that the Irish language is the predominant vernacular, or language of the home. The Gae
An Ghaeltacht 1926; areas of the island of Ireland which would have qualified for Gaeltacht status according to the first Coimisiún na Gaeltachta
Traffic sign, meaning "Give Way" or "Yield", in Ring, County Waterford
Traffic sign, meaning "Stop"
An Ghaeltacht 2007, zones within Category A
Gaelic revival
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The Gaelic revival was the late-nineteenth-century national revival of interest in the Irish language and Irish Gaelic culture. Irish had diminished as a spoken tongue, remaining the main daily langua
Gaeltacht
…language of the home. The Gaeltacht districts were first officially recognised during the 1920s in the early years of the Irish Free State, following the Gaelic revival, as part of a government policy aimed at restoring the Irish language. The Gaeltacht is threatened by serious language decline. Research published in…
The Gaelic Journal, an early organ of the Gaelic revival movement