County Kerry - Irish Language

Irish Language

There are 6,083 Irish language speakers in County Kerry, with 4,978 native speakers within the Kerry Gaeltacht. This doesn't count the 1,105 attending the four Gaelscoils (Irish language primary schools) and two Gaelcholáiste (Irish language secondary schools) outside the Kerry Gaeltacht.

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Famous quotes containing the words irish and/or language:

    “We Irish are too poetical to be poets; we are a nation of brilliant failures, but we are the greatest talkers since the Greeks.”
    —Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)

    “He had not failed to observe how harmoniously gigantic language and a microscopic topic go together.”
    —Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)