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Book Review: Inside the RUC—Routine Policing in a Divided Society

If Irish is used at all, why not celebrate that? But if we want to investigate it, let us proceed as we would with any other interesting form of life, through careful documentation of its situated appearance without preconceptions as to the criteria it must fulfil to be allowed to be 'living'. Above all, we need to abandon the distinction, which Hindley approvingly quotes from a British and Irish Communist Organisation pamphlet of 1972, between 'genuine Irish' (that spoken by native speakers from the Caeltacht) and 'revivalist tripe'. The claim that people who learn Irish as a second language can never speak 'genuine' Irish is a particularly obnoxious and elitist myth. Hindley says that the case of Hebrew gives no support to those who would argue that Irish can be revived even if it loses all its 'native speakers'. But if there is one lesson we might with advantage learn from the Hebrew case, it is that second language learners can, given the right circumstances, produce a language that is as expressive, pithy and distinctive in its world view as any 'natural' language can be.