County Dublin - Irish Language

Irish Language

There are 10,469 Irish speakers in County Dublin attending the 31 Gaelscoils (Irish language primary schools) and 8 Gaelcholáiste (Irish language secondary schools). There may be up to another 10,000 Irish speakers from the Gaeltacht living and working in Dublin also.

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Famous quotes containing the words irish and/or language:

    “We Irish are too poetical to be poets; we are a nation of brilliant failures, but we are the greatest talkers since the Greeks.”
    —Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)

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