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Article: You cannot force Irish down people's throats; A view from the far side.(Comment)
- Article from:
- The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland)
- Article date:
- March 5, 2002
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Byline: Pat McArt
CAN you imagine the insanity of it all: You speak English at home yet when you go to school you have to learn maths, geography, history even Greek through the medium of Irish, a language in which you can hardly string two words together.
That happened me in the mid- 1960s when I was sent to secondary school in Letterkenny. To this day I recall something about Gustav the Great but that's about it; the rest is a blur. It was an absolute nightmare at the time. ...
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