[angrais]

I'm not sure Ireland would want to directly associate themselves with English (=England | UK) in that way. Clearly this is a very political question and so we can discard it from Christmas discussion :)

>> It's native to Ireland, surely; in which case it seems fine.

English is also "native" to many people in all countries around the world. In Ireland, many families speak Irish at home, not English.

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Outside of school, there's very little usage. A few percent at most.

You're right, about politics. There are good historical reasons to hate what [English] nobility did in the past, but it's a mistake to dispense with using a common tongue because of that. My nan was shot at by "the English".

Common Latin use across Europe seems to have had a positive effect on the development of science for 1800 years or so?