Glengirl: I agree totally. What I don't understand is with a country as small as ours, why are there so many different dialects?
That's easy... that was explained to us in class one day. The Irish speakers became fractured Geographically and isolated so the language developed in different ways in different parts.
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That's easy... that was explained to us in class one day. The Irish speakers became fractured Geographically and isolated so the language developed in different ways in different parts.