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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /><st1:place w:st="on">Galway</st1:place> Advertiser</P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>Teaching Irish in <st1:place w:st="on">Connemara</st1:place> 1907</P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>It may sound like a contradiction of terms, but teaching the Irish language in the opening decades of the last century could also be a method of teaching English. Irish was the spoken language in most homes of the west of <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Ireland</st1:place></st1:country-region>, but it was recognised that knowledge of English was essential when emigration was usually the only way a young man or girl could better themselves. It is to the great credit of the Gaelic League, established in 1893 to promote the teaching of Irish in all national schools, that it recognised that fact.</P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>Full story:</P>
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