Why does the Irish race speak English....? ( Archived) (73)

Jun 19, 2019 7:42 AM CST Why does the Irish race speak English....?
..................when us Irish should be speaking our native language Irish......

Conas ata tu..?

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Jun 19, 2019 7:58 AM CST Why does the Irish race speak English....?
cubcougar73
cubcougar73cubcougar73Redding, California USA17 Threads 2 Polls 78 Posts
Economic Reasons .... English is the international trade language as all Pilots are suppose to speak it zipping about the air lanes.

Slangal Val Valic ...

yay
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Jun 19, 2019 8:26 AM CST Why does the Irish race speak English....?
cubcougar73: Economic Reasons .... English is the international trade language as all Pilots are suppose to speak it zipping about the air lanes.

Slangal Val Valic ...
cool info there...........but I was looking the official answer to why us Irish people speak English
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Jun 19, 2019 9:26 AM CST Why does the Irish race speak English....?
Bnaughty
BnaughtyBnaughtyMálaga, Andalusia Spain43 Threads 2 Polls 4,685 Posts
pedro27: cool info there...........but I was looking the official answer to why us Irish people speak English
Why don´t you know? You´re the one speaking itprofessor
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Jun 19, 2019 9:31 AM CST Why does the Irish race speak English....?
wonlongpong
wonlongpongwonlongpongSunderland, Tyne and Wear, England UK12 Threads 486 Posts
pedro27: I learnt Irish in school well I have a small amount of it learnt
There's your answer right there.

You couldn't be bothered to learn your native language.
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Jun 19, 2019 9:32 AM CST Why does the Irish race speak English....?
Bnaughty: Why don´t you know? You´re the one speaking it
because I don't know, but it must of been the English people who invaded my land Ireland and brainwashed us 2 speak English
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Jun 19, 2019 9:34 AM CST Why does the Irish race speak English....?
wonlongpong
wonlongpongwonlongpongSunderland, Tyne and Wear, England UK12 Threads 486 Posts
pedro27: because I don't know, but it must of been the English people who invaded my land Ireland and brainwashed us 2 speak English
If that's the case, we didn't do a very good job with some of you.
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Jun 19, 2019 9:34 AM CST Why does the Irish race speak English....?
Mesange1
Mesange1Mesange1Ici, Nouvelle-Aquitaine France1 Threads 449 Posts
Is there any Irish race pedro ? hmm, if so, with your tan and your name, you sure are not one of their descendants ! grin
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Jun 19, 2019 9:34 AM CST Why does the Irish race speak English....?
wonlongpong: There's your answer right there.

You couldn't be bothered to learn your native language.
how did England change Ireland into speaking English 2000 years ago? where u there?
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Jun 19, 2019 9:35 AM CST Why does the Irish race speak English....?
jimgi
jimgijimgiroscommon, Roscommon Ireland3 Threads 1 Polls 978 Posts
pedro27: cool info there...........but I was looking the official answer to why us Irish people speak English
You can start here; Wikipedia.

Gaelic resurgence (1350–1500)
Additional causes of the Gaelic revival were political and personal grievances against the Hiberno-Normans, but especially impatience with procrastination and the very real horrors that successive famines had brought. Pushed away from the fertile areas, the Irish were forced into subsistence farming on marginal lands, which left them with no safety net during bad harvest years (such as 1271 and 1277) or in a year of famine (virtually the entire period of 1311–1319).

Outside the Pale, the Hiberno-Norman lords adopted the Irish language and customs, becoming known as the Old English, and in the words of a phrase coined in later historiography, became "more Irish than the Irish themselves." Over the following centuries they sided with the indigenous Irish in political and military conflicts with England and generally stayed Catholic after the Reformation. The authorities in the Pale grew so worried about the Gaelicisation of Ireland that, in 1367 at a parliament in Kilkenny, they passed special legislation (known as the Statutes of Kilkenny) banning those of English descent from speaking the Irish language, wearing Irish clothes or inter-marrying with the Irish. Since the government in Dublin had little real authority, however, the Statutes did not have much effect.

Throughout the 15th century, these trends proceeded apace and central government authority steadily diminished. The monarchy of England was itself thrown into turmoil during the last phase of the Hundred Years' War to 1453, and the Wars of the Roses (1460–85), and as a result, direct English involvement in Ireland was greatly reduced. Successive kings of England delegated their constitutional authority over the lordship to the powerful Fitzgerald earls of Kildare, who held the balance of power by means of military force and widespread alliances with lords and clans. This, in effect, made the English Crown even more remote to the realities of Irish politics. At the same time, local Gaelic and Gaelicised lords expanded their powers at the expense of the central government in Dublin, creating a policy quite alien to English ways and which was not fully overthrown until the successful conclusion of the Tudor conquest.
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Jun 19, 2019 9:36 AM CST Why does the Irish race speak English....?
wonlongpong
wonlongpongwonlongpongSunderland, Tyne and Wear, England UK12 Threads 486 Posts
pedro27: how did England change Ireland into speaking English 2000 years ago? where u there?
Now, you're just babbling.
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Jun 19, 2019 9:37 AM CST Why does the Irish race speak English....?
wonlongpong: If that's the case, we didn't do a very good job with some of you.
I am talking about 2000 years ago not now son
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Jun 19, 2019 9:41 AM CST Why does the Irish race speak English....?
Bnaughty
BnaughtyBnaughtyMálaga, Andalusia Spain43 Threads 2 Polls 4,685 Posts
pedro27: because I don't know, but it must of been the English people who invaded my land Ireland and brainwashed us 2 speak English
You were just grunting at each other, so the English taught you a language and dragged you out of the gutter
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Jun 19, 2019 9:41 AM CST Why does the Irish race speak English....?
wonlongpong
wonlongpongwonlongpongSunderland, Tyne and Wear, England UK12 Threads 486 Posts
pedro27: I am talking about 2000 years ago not now son
Keep taking the tablets Tel's twin.

comfort
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Jun 19, 2019 9:45 AM CST Why does the Irish race speak English....?
jimgi
jimgijimgiroscommon, Roscommon Ireland3 Threads 1 Polls 978 Posts
Bnaughty: You were just grunting at each other, so the English taught you a language and dragged you out of the gutter
And the strange thing is that Irish people speak better English than most of the English. tongue rolling on the floor laughing
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Jun 19, 2019 9:47 AM CST Why does the Irish race speak English....?
Bnaughty: You were just grunting at each other, so the English taught you a language and dragged you out of the gutter
dipstick I am talking about 2000 years ago when your dipstick country invaded my country and made the Irish speakers speak poxy English kk? why ?
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Jun 19, 2019 9:50 AM CST Why does the Irish race speak English....?
jimgi
jimgijimgiroscommon, Roscommon Ireland3 Threads 1 Polls 978 Posts
pedro27: dipstick I am talking about 2000 years ago when your dipstick country invaded my country and made the Irish speakers speak poxy English kk? why ?
That was around 900 years ago,Pedro.
Before that we were invaded by the Vikings & later the Norse.
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Jun 19, 2019 9:50 AM CST Why does the Irish race speak English....?
wonlongpong: Keep taking the tablets Tel's twin.
thumbs down
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Jun 19, 2019 9:52 AM CST Why does the Irish race speak English....?
Bnaughty
BnaughtyBnaughtyMálaga, Andalusia Spain43 Threads 2 Polls 4,685 Posts
pedro27: dipstick I am talking about 2000 years ago when your dipstick country invaded my country and made the Irish speakers speak poxy English kk? why ?
If you got beat by some dipsticks it doesn´t say a lot for you Sir.Pedro MBE
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Jun 19, 2019 9:52 AM CST Why does the Irish race speak English....?
wonlongpong
wonlongpongwonlongpongSunderland, Tyne and Wear, England UK12 Threads 486 Posts
jimgi: That was around 900 years ago,Pedro.
Before that we were invaded by the Vikings & later the Norse.
Yeah, dipstick, what jimgi wrote.

Google is your friend Tel's twin, if you can spell it.
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