Letter: Claim that British suppressed Irish language is ‘exaggerated myth’

I reply to Enda Cullen (January 17), who puts up a very good case for the Gaelic language to counter ours against it.

A lot of Mr Cullen’s points have some merit but his claim that the British suppressed Gaelic is an exaggerated myth. They also suppressed Irish time when they introduced Greenwich Mean Time, and when they made sterling our currency.

The thinking at that time was to end the Tower of Babel and get as many people as possible speaking the same language. The Irish people gave up Gaelic in the exact same way as they gave up their Catholic religion in this age – they wanted to modernise the country.

So now we are swapping Catholic symbols and Catholic control for Gaelic symbols on every street sign and we are giving control to a privileged Gaelic elite in government, RTÉ and NGOs.

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Jack Sinnott, Protestants Against Gaelic Language, Dun Laoghaire, Co Dublin