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Signposts in east Cork

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  • 01-02-2010 3:04pm
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    corblimey
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    I was driving to Wexford on Saturday and noticed that a lot of signposts down past Youghal have their English names obscured. This applied to all signposts including the brown ones, just a white label stuck over the English name. Is this something akin to "An Daingean"? It seemed to be restricted to a small area, I only really noticed it first on a few signs pointing to "An Rinn".


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    LilMrsDahamsta
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    An Rinn (Ring as Béarla) is a Gaeltacht; my brother went there to Irish College as a kid, and I know a few people who went to boarding school there. I would imagine that like the Kerry Gaeltacht residents, they want signposting in their area in their first language; I'm not familiar with the specifics though.


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    Bogger77
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    Just to clarify, it's west Waterford, rather than east Cork :-)


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    RoundyMooney
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    That would be the Gaeltacht area alright. Well into west waterford.


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    jhegarty
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    You are correct, someone covered over all the English names.


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    corblimey
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    jhegarty wrote: »
    You are correct, someone covered over all the English names.

    But is this an official thing? Or just the residents going overboard a little?


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    cynder
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    I went to school in gortroe (near youghal) in the late 1980s and early 90's and they were all anti-english. very very anti-english.

    ha, im heading down there tomorrow..... better watch my back but with 23 years in ireland and 7 in the uk should be more irish now, was born in st phinbars in cork city but to uk parents ( well one had an italian grandmother).


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    LeoB
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    I would not knock them for having their signs in their first language.

    Saw a man complaining the other day about a sign in an office which was in Irish. He complained he could not understand it. I told him we speak English sometimes to facilitate people but Irish is our Language and if he is planning on staying in Ireland he should try learn a bit.

    I dont have much Irish but fill in whatever I can now in Irish.


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    DerMutt
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    As part of qualifying as a Gaeltacht, and get funding allocated to such regions, all signs have to be in Irish only. Thank the then Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs Eamon Ó Cuív, remember the whole Dingle/Daingean Uí Chúis debacle? It's the same throughout the country - West Cork, Kerry, Connemara, Donegal, Meath. Any existing dual language signs had the English place-names officially obscured!


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