...de la St. John’s Telegram:
A St. John's man believed to be the last speaker of an obscure dialect of the Irish language died Wednesday morning.
Aloysius O'Brien was 93.
O'Brien, a St. John's farmer, spoke Leinster Gaelic - or Irish of the books - a dialect now extinct in Ireland, which was passed down to him from his Irish-born grandmother.
The Leinster dialect became extinct during the 20th century, and O'Brien was thought to be the last person in the world who could speak it….
A St. John's man believed to be the last speaker of an obscure dialect of the Irish language died Wednesday morning.
Aloysius O'Brien was 93.
O'Brien, a St. John's farmer, spoke Leinster Gaelic - or Irish of the books - a dialect now extinct in Ireland, which was passed down to him from his Irish-born grandmother.
The Leinster dialect became extinct during the 20th century, and O'Brien was thought to be the last person in the world who could speak it….
1 comment:
Somebody got plenty of recordings of this man speaking, I hope.
(Since the article says he taught and promoted the language, I don't think he would have found that to be an imposition.)
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