2 things to know about Gaelic

March 11, 2011

While some Long Islanders are pulling up a chair to learn to speak as some of the Irish do, they are helping to revive a language that has been under siege historically. And they discover they already know a bit of the lingo.

Irish survives its harsh history

Although commonly referred to as Gaelic, to native speakers the language is simply Irish, said...

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