Dáil debates

Thursday, 19 November 2020

11:30 am

Photo of Pa DalyPa Daly (Kerry, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Anyone who has read Brian Friel's play Translations will know an eviction of sorts took place in the 1840s, when the Royal Engineers came and changed the names of all logainmneacha throughout the country. He stated "a civilisation can be imprisoned in a linguistic contour which no longer matches the landscape of fact". I ask whether a similar situation to what is in Wales could be brought in here, whereby the signs are changed back to Irish.

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