Gaelic in Eire was not taught to outsiders,in the 18 and 19 century the brits outlawed the speaking of the gaelic language..
So it went underground,when i went to school they taught it as a second language.
I believe it is dead now,we are all Europeans...
All the street signs in Ireland are in Gaelic, as well as the titles of government officials. How can you say the language is dead?
During the simmering uprising that went from warm to hot a number of times, leading up to the Easter Rebellion, there were plenty of people speaking Gaelic, and even more who had grown up in Gaelic-speaking or bilingual homes. There were the treason songs — the English language verses were either comedic or romantic, and the Gaelic verses were about independence, freedom, kicking out the British, etc. One of the last of the Gaelic-only speakers can be seen (oddly enough) in Michael Wood’s “In Search of the Trojan War” documentary from over twenty years ago, a aging fisherman named John Henry.