Irish Language
There are 4,491 Irish speakers in County Kildare; 2,451 attending the seven Gaelscoils (Irish language primary schools) and one Gaelcholáiste (Irish language secondary school). According to the Irish Census 2006 2,040 people in the county identify themselves as being daily Irish speakers outside the education system.
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Famous quotes containing the words irish and/or language:
“I rather think the cinema will die. Look at the energy being exerted to revive it—yesterday it was color, today three dimensions. I don’t give it forty years more. Witness the decline of conversation. Only the Irish have remained incomparable conversationalists, maybe because technical progress has passed them by.”
—Orson Welles (1915–1984)
“Though language forms the preacher,
‘Tis “good works” make the man.”
—Eliza Cook (1818–1889)