Comments on: Confessions of a Receptionist http://www.grannylosttheplot.com/2007/03/12/confessions-of-a-receptionist/ The memories of a fading mind Fri, 21 Nov 2008 02:34:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Granny http://www.grannylosttheplot.com/2007/03/12/confessions-of-a-receptionist/#comment-61 Granny Tue, 13 Mar 2007 18:43:44 +0000 http://www.grannylosttheplot.com/2007/03/12/confessions-of-a-receptionist/#comment-61 Yes, that was pre-70's John. God! You're really ageing me now!! Yes, that was pre-70’s John.

God! You’re really ageing me now!!

]]> By: John of Dublin http://www.grannylosttheplot.com/2007/03/12/confessions-of-a-receptionist/#comment-60 John of Dublin Tue, 13 Mar 2007 15:20:48 +0000 http://www.grannylosttheplot.com/2007/03/12/confessions-of-a-receptionist/#comment-60 "This was before the awful atrocities carried out ‘in the name of freedom’. My sympathies were with the IRA at that time." To help younger readers I suspect you are referring to about pre-1970 when it was acceptable to be at least indifferent to the IRA before they went a bit nuts. I'm sure you recall all the excitment of the 1966 celebrations of 50 years since 1916, TV documentaries, a drama series on 1916, great patriotic stuff at the time. “This was before the awful atrocities carried out ‘in the name of freedom’. My sympathies were with the IRA at that time.”

To help younger readers I suspect you are referring to about pre-1970 when it was acceptable to be at least indifferent to the IRA before they went a bit nuts. I’m sure you recall all the excitment of the 1966 celebrations of 50 years since 1916, TV documentaries, a drama series on 1916, great patriotic stuff at the time.

]]> By: Granny http://www.grannylosttheplot.com/2007/03/12/confessions-of-a-receptionist/#comment-56 Granny Tue, 13 Mar 2007 00:14:37 +0000 http://www.grannylosttheplot.com/2007/03/12/confessions-of-a-receptionist/#comment-56 Seo seachtain na Gaeilge. For our foreign visitors, that means 'Week of Irish' where we are encouraged to speak Irish. We are actually supposed to speak it for a fortnight, so why call it Seachtain? (one week). In the times we live in, I don't agree with Irish being compulsory. It is a beautiful language, when you hear it spoken in a Gaeltacht area. But on TV and radio, it somehow sounds patronising and forced. If you know what I mean? Slán anois, agus go neirigh an bothar leat! Seo seachtain na Gaeilge. For our foreign visitors, that means ‘Week of Irish’ where we are encouraged to speak Irish. We are actually supposed to speak it for a fortnight, so why call it Seachtain? (one week).

In the times we live in, I don’t agree with Irish being compulsory. It is a beautiful language, when you hear it spoken in a Gaeltacht area. But on TV and radio, it somehow sounds patronising and forced. If you know what I mean?

Slán anois, agus go neirigh an bothar leat!

]]> By: Dario Sanchez http://www.grannylosttheplot.com/2007/03/12/confessions-of-a-receptionist/#comment-55 Dario Sanchez Mon, 12 Mar 2007 18:28:34 +0000 http://www.grannylosttheplot.com/2007/03/12/confessions-of-a-receptionist/#comment-55 But practically no one speaks enough Gaelige chun cohmra a deanamh (can't include fadas for some reason) leis na daoine chun an IRA. See, even my Irish - and I'm out of school less than a year - stinks. And they're talking about making it bigger on the curriculum? Madness. But practically no one speaks enough Gaelige chun cohmra a deanamh (can’t include fadas for some reason) leis na daoine chun an IRA.

See, even my Irish - and I’m out of school less than a year - stinks. And they’re talking about making it bigger on the curriculum?

Madness.

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