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"What if you came home actually able to hold a conversation as Gaeilge?"
There is something quietly electric about ordering your breakfast as Gaeilge and actually being understood. A Gaeltacht course drops you into Donegal or Connemara with people who are just as rusty and just as determined as you are, and that shared scramble is half the fun. By day three, words you thought were long gone from school start surfacing on their own. You leave realising the language was always closer than you thought, just waiting for the right place to wake it up.
Eimear (34), Killarney — secondary school admin, collects vintage OS maps of Munster
I did an Oideas Gael week in Gleann Cholm Cille two summers ago and I want to be honest about the first evening — I nearly drove back to Kerry.
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