[Applause]
do you leave just murrelet is the answer
but it’s always a special Oscar I’m very
lucky
I’m an Irish speaker born and raised
here in Dublin by wonderful parents
through Irish I’m not very fond of the
term guy Al Gore which we’re not going
to go into tonight you’ll be happy to
hear our speaker is a much broader term
and there’s a lot more of us than you
might believe 66% of 17 and 18 year olds
the last census answered yes to the
question can you speak Irish this
compares to the demographics in general
or to the population in general
40% claim that they can speak Irish or
say that they can speak Irish I’m going
to tell you a story about an idea that
my friend Pat ER and I had that has
helped these Irish speakers meet and
come together and form temporary pop-up
Gotha or temporary Irish speaking areas
it’s quite easy each month we pick a pub
we create a Facebook event essentially a
meet-up of Irish speakers in Dublin but
we don’t just pick any pub we pick the
best pubs in Dublin and rarely return we
prefer to move from pub to pub from bar
to bar month to month to pick the best
bars for that month depending on the
weather
the craic the size of the crowd and also
we tried to capture as many styles and
atmospheres
as possible young and old attends native
speakers learners and everyone in
between and I mean everyone pecially
panhandlers tourists students West
Belfast rappers Portadown golfers at the
last count over 6000 people have
attended pop up graphically in Dublin
since we’ve since we started us two
years ago with hundreds and even a
thousand people hacking out
bars in Dublin city centre every month
we don’t put anything on there’s no
event in the pub it’s you know there’s
no music there’s no offering other than
what the buyer themselves would offer
that nice we get in touch with the buyer
beforehand we tell them we’re coming we
tend not to ask permission because
sometimes they’d say no so we don’t ask
permission we turn up we tell them that
they’d be you know they do well to put
on some extra buyer stuff for tonight
only the lingua franca in these buyers
in these Gulf Coast buyers pardon the
phrase but golf buyers english-speaking
buyers changes to Irish as if they
existed just for that one night in an
alternate gaia universe irish is heard
at the bar irish is heard in the
bathrooms irish heard in the smoking
sections on the buses on the way there
in the taxis and in the chippers bar
staffed standard of irish improves
dramatically as the evening as the
evening goes on and as the bar fills up
with thirsty and sometimes dare i say is
attractive customers young and old
appear natives learners from different
families different guy fifty all
gathered there together for one nice not
over some kind of cultural experience
having to listen to some music that
nobody particularly wants to listen to
or watches sports that nobody well that
not many people want to watch but
actually what’s happening is because by
all being there in the same place for
that one nice they’re creating a
beachhead for social conversational
vernacular irish to be used in a social
setting and more than that for actually
irish to become part of the natural of
the city’s natural soundscape for many
people witnessing a pop of gaia that for
the first time this is the first time
that they’ve heard irish used socially
this is understandable because irish
speakers we tend actually to switch to
english us because we don’t want to
appear rude in mixed linguistic company
so therefore it’s not surprising that
people have not heard irish used in a
social setting unless they’ve you know
visitors are going forth for public
mahalia and for daily Irish speakers on
high earth is home sometimes literally
but often culturally for the majority of
the sixty-six percent of seventeen and
eighteen year olds on well that probably
represents three weeks away from the
folks a dance and if they’re lucky maybe
a kiss
but for the communities in the wealth it
is a real place with real challenges and
there are no magic solutions as there
are no magic solutions for the
challenges that face rural Ireland the
language and her speakers who speak her
there and that should not become the
Canaries in the coal mine of rural
Ireland but all the same they’re
ambitious and talented youth leave the
fairies and come to urban centers like
Dublin where they meet urban Irish
speakers in this wonderful confluence
more and more artistic musical cultural
events are springing up in Dublin to
cater for Irish speakers of all ages all
demographics all ethnicities all
persuasions Irish language social media
which could be actually considered a
digital guy out that in of itself is a
welcoming warm diverse place but unless
you seek out these musical events these
cultural events are unless you speak out
seek out Irish speakers online you might
not have heard Irish used socially pop
of birth provides diverse public social
spaces where Irish speakers can
congregate without having to switch to
English without having to have
conversations about Irish instead of
conversations in Irish fresh learners it
provides something else it provides an
immersive social experience that I think
they can engage with on their own terms
with their friends as they wish with
always the opportunity that surrounds
them of native speakers learners are
just total random errs father and I were
inspired to to start pop of Kyoto
because of the negative cycle of news
that surrounds the language and every
time it’s mentioned mmm it seemed to me
that there was this perception that you
use Greger or to use Irish outside and
Kyoto somehow a performative act that
needs to be incentivized by by subsidy
it’s very easy to dismiss people that
you cannot see or in the case of Irish
that you cannot hear we wanted to prove
that urban Irish speakers exist
and we wanted to put up a bat signal for
the scattered gals to gather we had no
idea that there was that many of us here
and all over the world because guys the
Irish speaking community and the Irish
community Irish people all around the
world have embraced pop of guile taught
so much so that I now had to put
together a zip file with all the hints
and tips and logos and everything just
to answer the hundreds of questions that
we get over a hundred independent pop of
Grantha ‘they have sprung up all around
the world New York London have tree
because they can’t decide where to have
it Los Angeles Berlin Dubai I’m back
again and bail Faris to querque hadar
there’s not a week that goes by without
me getting a phone call or an email or a
text message or whatever about where to
about the next pop of graph that’s going
to be settled there was a cheese and
wine pop-up on the banks of the river
Sen there’s a pop of mould oil puff of
girth on the ding-ding bosses of Hong
Kong there is a pop of glare that in La
Paz Bolivia parents of younger children
who can’t maybe attend boozy pop-up
graphics they formed their own pop of
graphic Minogue which they undertaken in
Miley Park when the weather permits pop
up girl that have become a feature of
community events the length and breadth
of the country where understandably
otherwise the English language would
dominate these events have allowed Irish
speakers learners and natives and
everything in between as most of us are
to find a space a socially a social
immersive space that is novel that is
comfortable and that is inviting there
is a desire for spaces to speak Irish as
a social language in Ireland and
everywhere where there’s Irish people
this yearning for a positive inclusive
identity is healthy for a nation and for
its people and should be able to draw
support from every strand like be it
voluntary commercial or state to succeed
in this national linguistic
self-development we need
protect preserve and develop traditional
spaces where Irish is spoken but more
than that actually not more than that
and that as well as that we need to
explore new spaces new environments and
we need to we need to explore them and
conquer them not as a people but as a
language of the people pop of care that
was described by the Irish language
media first as a glare detainee here or
a one-night stand I don’t know about the
one night this but it certainly is stand
because there’s rarely a seat free
I justified to riff Hawk good I mean
about [Applause]
do you leave just murrelet is the answer
but it’s always a special Oscar I’m very
lucky
I’m an Irish speaker born and raised
here in Dublin by wonderful parents
through Irish I’m not very fond of the
term guy Al Gore which we’re not going
to go into tonight you’ll be happy to
hear our speaker is a much broader term
and there’s a lot more of us than you
might believe 66% of 17 and 18 year olds
the last census answered yes to the
question can you speak Irish this
compares to the demographics in general
or to the population in general
40% claim that they can speak Irish or
say that they can speak Irish I’m going
to tell you a story about an idea that
my friend Pat ER and I had that has
helped these Irish speakers meet and
come together and form temporary pop-up
Gotha or temporary Irish speaking areas
it’s quite easy each month we pick a pub
we create a Facebook event essentially a
meet-up of Irish speakers in Dublin but
we don’t just pick any pub we pick the
best pubs in Dublin and rarely return we
prefer to move from pub to pub from bar
to bar month to month to pick the best
bars for that month depending on the
weather
the craic the size of the crowd and also
we tried to capture as many styles and
atmospheres
as possible young and old attends native
speakers learners and everyone in
between and I mean everyone pecially
panhandlers tourists students West
Belfast rappers Portadown golfers at the
last count over 6000 people have
attended pop up graphically in Dublin
since we’ve since we started us two
years ago with hundreds and even a
thousand people hacking out
bars in Dublin city centre every month
we don’t put anything on there’s no
event in the pub it’s you know there’s
no music there’s no offering other than
what the buyer themselves would offer
that nice we get in touch with the buyer
beforehand we tell them we’re coming we
tend not to ask permission because
sometimes they’d say no so we don’t ask
permission we turn up we tell them that
they’d be you know they do well to put
on some extra buyer stuff for tonight
only the lingua franca in these buyers
in these Gulf Coast buyers pardon the
phrase but golf buyers english-speaking
buyers changes to Irish as if they
existed just for that one night in an
alternate gaia universe irish is heard
at the bar irish is heard in the
bathrooms irish heard in the smoking
sections on the buses on the way there
in the taxis and in the chippers bar
staffed standard of irish improves
dramatically as the evening as the
evening goes on and as the bar fills up
with thirsty and sometimes dare i say is
attractive customers young and old
appear natives learners from different
families different guy fifty all
gathered there together for one nice not
over some kind of cultural experience
having to listen to some music that
nobody particularly wants to listen to
or watches sports that nobody well that
not many people want to watch but
actually what’s happening is because by
all being there in the same place for
that one nice they’re creating a
beachhead for social conversational
vernacular irish to be used in a social
setting and more than that for actually
irish to become part of the natural of
the city’s natural soundscape for many
people witnessing a pop of gaia that for
the first time this is the first time
that they’ve heard irish used socially
this is understandable because irish
speakers we tend actually to switch to
english us because we don’t want to
appear rude in mixed linguistic company
so therefore it’s not surprising that
people have not heard irish used in a
social setting unless they’ve you know
visitors are going forth for public
mahalia and for daily Irish speakers on
high earth is home sometimes literally
but often culturally for the majority of
the sixty-six percent of seventeen and
eighteen year olds on well that probably
represents three weeks away from the
folks a dance and if they’re lucky maybe
a kiss
but for the communities in the wealth it
is a real place with real challenges and
there are no magic solutions as there
are no magic solutions for the
challenges that face rural Ireland the
language and her speakers who speak her
there and that should not become the
Canaries in the coal mine of rural
Ireland but all the same they’re
ambitious and talented youth leave the
fairies and come to urban centers like
Dublin where they meet urban Irish
speakers in this wonderful confluence
more and more artistic musical cultural
events are springing up in Dublin to
cater for Irish speakers of all ages all
demographics all ethnicities all
persuasions Irish language social media
which could be actually considered a
digital guy out that in of itself is a
welcoming warm diverse place but unless
you seek out these musical events these
cultural events are unless you speak out
seek out Irish speakers online you might
not have heard Irish used socially pop
of birth provides diverse public social
spaces where Irish speakers can
congregate without having to switch to
English without having to have
conversations about Irish instead of
conversations in Irish fresh learners it
provides something else it provides an
immersive social experience that I think
they can engage with on their own terms
with their friends as they wish with
always the opportunity that surrounds
them of native speakers learners are
just total random errs father and I were
inspired to to start pop of Kyoto
because of the negative cycle of news
that surrounds the language and every
time it’s mentioned mmm it seemed to me
that there was this perception that you
use Greger or to use Irish outside and
Kyoto somehow a performative act that
needs to be incentivized by by subsidy
it’s very easy to dismiss people that
you cannot see or in the case of Irish
that you cannot hear we wanted to prove
that urban Irish speakers exist
and we wanted to put up a bat signal for
the scattered gals to gather we had no
idea that there was that many of us here
and all over the world because guys the
Irish speaking community and the Irish
community Irish people all around the
world have embraced pop of guile taught
so much so that I now had to put
together a zip file with all the hints
and tips and logos and everything just
to answer the hundreds of questions that
we get over a hundred independent pop of
Grantha ‘they have sprung up all around
the world New York London have tree
because they can’t decide where to have
it Los Angeles Berlin Dubai I’m back
again and bail Faris to querque hadar
there’s not a week that goes by without
me getting a phone call or an email or a
text message or whatever about where to
about the next pop of graph that’s going
to be settled there was a cheese and
wine pop-up on the banks of the river
Sen there’s a pop of mould oil puff of
girth on the ding-ding bosses of Hong
Kong there is a pop of glare that in La
Paz Bolivia parents of younger children
who can’t maybe attend boozy pop-up
graphics they formed their own pop of
graphic Minogue which they undertaken in
Miley Park when the weather permits pop
up girl that have become a feature of
community events the length and breadth
of the country where understandably
otherwise the English language would
dominate these events have allowed Irish
speakers learners and natives and
everything in between as most of us are
to find a space a socially a social
immersive space that is novel that is
comfortable and that is inviting there
is a desire for spaces to speak Irish as
a social language in Ireland and
everywhere where there’s Irish people
this yearning for a positive inclusive
identity is healthy for a nation and for
its people and should be able to draw
support from every strand like be it
voluntary commercial or state to succeed
in this national linguistic
self-development we need
protect preserve and develop traditional
spaces where Irish is spoken but more
than that actually not more than that
and that as well as that we need to
explore new spaces new environments and
we need to we need to explore them and
conquer them not as a people but as a
language of the people pop of care that
was described by the Irish language
media first as a glare detainee here or
a one-night stand I don’t know about the
one night this but it certainly is stand
because there’s rarely a seat free
I justified to riff Hawk good I mean
about [Applause]
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