It's very simple, if rather depressing, really. Violent Irish nationalism runs on a cycle of about 25 - 30 years i.e. is generational. It survives because of the underlying refusal of a significant proportion of Irish people (and of the diaspora) to accept that anything other than violence will achieve Irish "unity". Mere "peace" is no substitute for them. The centenary of 1916 may distort the sequence somewhat.

Mar aon le sin, ar ndóigh, tá baint idir an dearcadh céanna agus dearcadh na nGael ar a dteanga féin. Caitheann mór chuid daoine (droch-) Gaeilge mar sórt suaitheantas - ní mór dóibh é a úsáid chun bheith Gaelach, dar leo féin. Fhad is a leanann na "triobóidí", leanfaidh an "Gaeilge". Ar ndóigh, is fiú níos mó ná sin í.

I despair.

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