It is barely 9am and I have already found one point of disagreement with Irish critic, Declan Kiberd. He wrote in 1997 that the wrongs of the world cannot be write by a nation's teachers! As a teacher, I muttered a harrumph. Why else does one become a teacher, but to constantly put wrongs right and fight injustice in the micro as well as the macrocosm?
The real point of disagreement however was on the subject of teaching Irish language - the ancientness of it, its peculiarities and associated historical cutlure - in the classroom, to wit: "a culture is more likely to be mummified than revitalised in a classroom". From the Jewish perspective, which has constantly renewed itself for three thousand years and counting, this assertion is nonsnse!
Right, rant over.
Article: English in an Irish Frame" 1997
The real point of disagreement however was on the subject of teaching Irish language - the ancientness of it, its peculiarities and associated historical cutlure - in the classroom, to wit: "a culture is more likely to be mummified than revitalised in a classroom". From the Jewish perspective, which has constantly renewed itself for three thousand years and counting, this assertion is nonsnse!
Right, rant over.
Article: English in an Irish Frame" 1997
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