How Ireland’s Native Language Nearly Vanished

[music] One way the British asserted control over Ireland was by trying to erase its culture. And I think the most potent example of this is the Irish language itself. At one point, this was the language that was spoken by people on the island of Ireland.But under English rule, they really tried to suppress Irish, tried to associate it with with kind of poor and rural communities. Um, instead English was the language of government. It was the the language of education.uh and in the 1830s all of the the Brit ...