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By the 20th century. The Irish language was quite alive and Irish speakers made up a majority in several major areas before the Great Famine (which obviously an
by pqtyw 1y ago
By the 20th century. The Irish language was quite alive and Irish speakers made up a majority in several major areas before the Great Famine (which obviously and not at all surprisingly disproportionally affected Irish speakers due to the pseudo-genocidal policies of the British government)
- alephnerd 1y agoMakes sense. I thought it had died out by the early 20th century, but based on census data it didn't die out but did see a rapid decline. That said, I was thinking post-famine.