Irish Language
There were native speakers of Irish in South Tipperary until the middle of the 20th century. Recordings of their dialect, made before the last native speakers died, have been made available through a project of the Royal Irish Academy Library.
| Leading population centers | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | Town | Population | Barony | Clonmel Cahir |
|||
| 1 | Clonmel | 17,008 | Iffa and Offa East | ||||
| 2 | Carrick-on-Suir | 5,906 | Iffa and Offa East | ||||
| 3 | Tipperary | 5,065 | Clanwilliam | ||||
| 4 | Cahir | 3,904 | Iffa and Offa West | ||||
| 5 | Cashel | 2,936 | Middle Third | ||||
| 6 | Killenaule | 1,774 | Slievardagh | ||||
| 7 | Fethard | 1,374 | Middle Third | ||||
| 8 | Bansha | 1,090 | Clanwilliam | ||||
| based on Irish Census 2006 Records | |||||||
Read more about this topic: South Tipperary
Famous quotes containing the words irish and/or language:
“For every nineteenth-century middle-class family that protected its wife and child within the family circle, there was an Irish or a German girl scrubbing floors in that home, a Welsh boy mining coal to keep the home-baked goodies warm, a black girl doing the family laundry, a black mother and child picking cotton to be made into clothes for the family, and a Jewish or an Italian daughter in a sweatshop making “ladies” dresses or artificial flowers for the family to purchase.”
—Stephanie Coontz (20th century)
“It is a mass language only in the same sense that its baseball slang is born of baseball players. That is, it is a language which is being molded by writers to do delicate things and yet be within the grasp of superficially educated people. It is not a natural growth, much as its proletarian writers would like to think so. But compared with it at its best, English has reached the Alexandrian stage of formalism and decay.”
—Raymond Chandler (1888–1959)