Irish lost the overdot diacritic in the move away from traditional Irish type around the 1940s, but it will never lose the acute accent (síne fada) because the

Irish lost the overdot diacritic in the move away from traditional Irish type around the 1940s, but it will never lose the acute accent (síne fada) because the meaning of a word is completely different if you drop it. Eg: Féar - grass. Fear - man. Cás - case. Cas - turn. Lóndubh - (nonsense) black lunch. Londubh - blackbird.