A documentary about a passion for the Irish language and how people around the world have been inspired to learn Irish.
For some of us, our school days knocked any passion we had for the Irish language. We learned the songs, we studied the poetry and prose, but we left school after 13 years without being able to hold a conversation in Irish. When we say we have a ‘cúpla focal’, we literally only have a couple of words.
Yet our national language has reached people of different nationalities around the world, who have been inspired to learn and to speak Irish.
In ‘Documentary on One: More Irish than the Irish Themselves’, Batshèva Battu from France, Cathinka Hambro from Norway and Cóilín O Floinn from New York tell of their interest in the language, how they went about learning it as adults, talk about the different peculiarities of the language, how they use it in their everyday lives, and their view on Irish people’s relationship with the language.
(First broadcast 12 March, 2011)