Irish political observers have argued in recent weeks that only a miracle could prevent left-wing politician Catherine Connolly from becoming the country's new president.. It is interesting that the fact that her native language is Irish is presented as a feature of the favorite’s biography. This is truly phenomenal for Ireland.. Formally, Irish is spoken by the majority of the population of this country, but it now remains the mother tongue of less than one percent of the population. To protect the Irish language in places of compact residence of its speakers, after the restoration of Irish independence, special “language reservations”, the so-called Geltacht, were created. But over the years of Irish statehood the situation only worsened. And now, even in the territory of the Geltacht, even where formally the Irish-speaking population is the majority, Irish is used more as a folklore and - in some places - family language, but in everyday communication, of course, English is used, writes Vitaly Portnikov for the publication "

The following is the text in the original language. We often talk about those who are responsible for creating a comfortable environment for the development of the language, praising the legislative acts, organizing the discussion, and then the evolution of everything.. I often say that myself. Having recently realized that, having changed the minds of the spyvrozmovniks at the hour of the final public debate, the main thing is to switch to the Ukrainian “elite”, and then the people will catch up. Ale Irish proof of evidence that everything can be done in vain.

In the history of the Irish and Ukrainian we have a rich history - the empires were captured and re-examined, brought to the “rural” level, the territories of their functioning were extinguished. In response to the votes of independence, the Ukrainian language reduced mailings to the development, and the Irish language - until the residual decline. And in this case, the loyalty of the Irish to the status of their people as the first power was always incredibly high. Mova was respected, respected as one of the symbols of identity (the rich school student of Ireland Eamon de Valera supposedly said that Ireland is better off with mine, less free without language), from then on it is not possible to discredit her. And so, the Irish elite have always been spluttering with the development of language - about which we reconciledly read “Dublin” by the great Irish (or English) writer James Joyce. And the Irish people, for example, did not appreciate my words - symbolically writing, but actually continuing to appreciate my “selyuks”. And so, the people themselves achieved the norms about obov? language knowledge of the language for all government officials - from now on you can demonstrate your knowledge of the language at a high level. Ale is not a skinned Irishman - President.

Of course, you can take a long time to understand why Ireland didn’t get it - although there was both love and sovereign support. It was not possible to seize the language on the plains not only of the powers, but also of its reservations. It was not possible to make the Irish language alive - although the middle-class country itself had the power and light functioning, and thus Ireland became united in Europe.

You can, of course, note that their “religious identity” played an evil role with the Irish, and even at the last stage they competed with the English and Scots within the same denomination. Although it will not be entirely clear: among the supporters of independence in Ireland were Protestants, and among the Unionists were Catholics. The substitution of national identity by religious subdivisions is an unsafe experiment. At the beginning of the 20th century, this seemed sufficient, but since the Irish marriage is less religious (like the British one), then fewer duties are lost. Well, before we speak, the Irish will continue to go out to demonstrations of thousands of people to protest against the Israeli Jewish “colonists” - against the “colonists”, which is exactly religion after all. And the Irish did not dare to breed a native language on the land, which was lost in the stench. And despite the fact that the Irish founders of independence have a lot of common doubts: not giving in to a new language means not giving in to a new identity. So why did the people actually appear in opposition before the attempts of the powerful state

And the fact that the British managed to overcome not only the prevailing marginalization of the Irish language, but also the fixation of its “non-prestigious” status with the English language. There is a struggle for independence, but the independence itself has not changed in the identified primary people - well, the Irish emigration to America, where the English also contributed to social status, also added value. There was nothing in Israel that for those first-time burghers the “prestige” of our land, exiled from the equals of my Bible, did not carry any weight.. Security? It turned out that in the 1990s, the fate of the past story appeared, when millions of Radyansky Jews migrated to the extreme - and among them there were many people who were inspired by the tradition of the different quality of the power bath before the " But the position of Hebrew could no longer be changed.

This Irish fiasco is an important lesson for you and me. We need not just a Ukrainian power and certainly not a Ukrainian elite. We need Ukrainian people. A people who speak Ukrainian not as a sign of protest and do not turn to Russian for what is so natural and significant. And the people who should speak Ukrainian.

People who should speak Ukrainian to their children.

Without such people, no power will help. There will be no Ukrainian language. There will be a Geltakht.