Whereas elsewhere in Europe, no educated man would be caught dead speaking a vernacular, the Irish thought that all language was game-and too much fun to be deprived of any part of it. They were still too childlike and playful to find any value in snobbery. (Thomas Cahill)

Whereas elsewhere in Europe, no educated man would be caught dead speaking a vernacular, the Irish thought that all language was game-and too much fun to be deprived of any part of it. They were still too childlike and playful to find any value in snobbery.

Thomas Cahill

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