DUBLIN, March 13 — Thousands of miles from the glitz of Sunday’s Oscars, the first Irish language film to earn a nomination is sparking renewed interest in a native tongue spoken by so few it is considered endangered by the United Nations cultural agency. last year became the first Irish language film to gross more than €1 million at the UK and Irish box office. It has remained a fixture in cinemas across English-speaking Ireland.
Director Colm Bairéad says the success feels like it is boosting a language he grew up feeling self-conscious about because of its rarity. Raised in a bilingual household, the Dubliner’s father would make a point of shouting across the street in Irish when calling his children in for dinner. “It took me a while to accept that actually to be given another language and to be given our native language was a beautiful thing and a gift really,” said Bairéad, who raises his two young sons in Irish with his wife and“When you have a language that is becoming part of the cultural landscape, that really helps. I think it’s certainly leading to a slight shift in mindset and hopefully one that will be lasting.
While Irish is taught as a compulsory subject all the way through to the end of high school, just over 70,000 of Ireland’s five million population speak it at least once a day according to the most recent census. But Irish is thriving in the arts. It is now difficult to find an Irish language director such is the demand, said Cúán Mac Conghail, whose award winning films
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