No English
Jan 29th, 2007 | By admin | Category: IrelandBack in the early 80s I was in college with a guy from North Wales. He had been a monoglot Welsh speaker until the age of 14. His family lived on a peninsula and they had no television. Primary and secondary schools had been Welsh speaking. In a reverse of what had happened in previous generations, he remembered with anger a teacher who had repeatedly mocked an English speaking pupil.
Andrew came to Dublin expecting a place as Celtic as the Wales he had left. Wales was under English rule; …