An Ag Canadh

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I really think that some people don't understand just how much Kneecap has done for Gaeilge in the modern era.

Before Kneecap, I couldn't tell you a single artist who wrote songs in Gaeilge. Every interaction that I'd had with music as Gaeilge was in trad music and sean nós songs and let's be honest, most people don't really listen to them in their free time.

So that's why we all stan Kneecap for doing so much for Gaeilge 🫶

Conditioning occurs all the time in society.

Today, I was just doing Duolingo Irish, and they have this matching words exercise. The English word was NURSE. I couldn't find BANALTRA, which is what I learned from a very young age as the word for NURSE. There was, however, the world ALTRA, which I matched. Never in my many years of education in the Irish school system was the world ALTRA used for NURSE. It was always BANALTRA. We were being conditioned from a young age that NURSES ARE WOMEN! For those that are not familiar with the Irish language, when the word BAN is in front of a profession, it is a woman in that profession. My tiny, just about 4 year old brain only comprehended the word BANALTRA that I was shown as the name for NURSE, and I kept it for all time until today. By the way, Google Translate still has BANALTRA.... so nurses are only women ......Mad.

Francis: Oh, sorry, I can’t right now. I’m imagining some things and worrying about them.

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