Irish Language
There are 979 Irish speakers in County Tipperary attending the five Gaelscoileanna (Irish language primary schools) and two Coláisti Gael (Irish language secondary schools).
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Famous quotes containing the words irish and/or language:
“The next forenoon we went to Oldtown.... The Indian is said to cultivate the vices rather than the virtues of the white man. Yet this village was cleaner than I expected, far cleaner than such Irish villages as I have seen.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
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—Willa Cather (1873–1947)