Talk:Gaelic revival

Irish Revival
Why not Irish Revival, given that Irish and not Gaelic is used extensively in WIKI to denote the language in Ireland?Eog1916 (talk) 23:45, 29 March 2008 (UTC)

The term "Gaelic Revival" is an accepted historical term that referred to the point during the late 1800's when the Irish elite tried to encourage a literary, social, and linguistic revival of all aspects of Irish-Gaelic culture. Irish language revival today is a continuation of this movement originally founded during the late 1800's. Taoiseach (talk) 13:00, 06 May 2008 (UTC)

19th century revival or modern status?
The introduction identifies the term and article as about the 19th-century revival, but the text says little about this and is overwhelmingly about current status of the Irish language. The latter should be in Irish language or an article of its own, and there should be material about the 19th century revival. --JWB (talk) 19:13, 5 August 2009 (UTC)

Conversely, this article could be moved to a more accurate name like Irish language revival and the one lead sentence about the 19th century revival could go to a new article. --JWB (talk) 19:16, 11 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Indeed, I was very disappointed not at all finding what I expected here. Gaelic League, Gaelic Journal, Eugene O'Growney, Eoin MacNeill, Douglas Hyde, An Claidheamh Soluis - there are plenty of articles with bits and pieces about the 19th Century Gaelic Revival, while this article only include a reference to a 19th Century newspaper that wasn't even written in Gaelic. Finn Rindahl (talk) 21:41, 10 April 2010 (UTC)

"Gaelic revival" refers only to the late 19th / early 20th century movement. Eveything added to this article since March 2008 is therefore off topic. It is also unsourced, and almost certainly original research. I will remove it in three days from now. If somebody wants to create a new article in the meantime they can, but unless it is properly sourced I will nominate any new article for deletion straight away. Scolaire (talk) 07:21, 13 April 2010 (UTC)


 * As it turns out, the only on-topic paragraph in this is copyvio, being taken from Merriam-Webster's encyclopedia of literature and The New Encyclopaedia Britannica Volume 4 and Volume 5. While I'm removing the off-topic stuff I will paraphrase and cite those three sentences, but if anybody wants to rewrite or even delete them that would be fine.  Scolaire (talk) 07:46, 16 April 2010 (UTC)


 * The proper article for modern preservation and revitalization efforts of Irish [Gaelic] is Status of the Irish language. For [Scottish] Gaelic, Scottish Gaelic.  For Manx [Gaelic], Manx language.  — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼  06:15, 24 October 2015 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the comment,, but it is a little bit out of date. This was the state of the article in April 2010. I gutted it at the time, and completely rewrote it three years later, so there hasn't been anything about the modern language movement in it in over five years. Scolaire (talk) 09:23, 25 October 2015 (UTC)
 * I know; I read the whole thread. Just pointing to where this information lives now, so no one tries to re-add it. This seemed a valid concern because there's an intermittent trend across the WP:CELTS-scope articles and anything related to them faintly, like articles on paganism, to shoehorn ancient and modern material into the same article, possibly to advance the supposed unbroken-line-of-tradition sentiment. See RM discussion at Talk:List of Pagans, for example; the article is a mish-mash of people notable as neopagans, and non-Judeo-Christians from Classical Antiquity. So, a re-dilution of Victorian Celtic Twilight historical material with modern pan-Celticist nationalist stuff, intermediated by more prosaic modern language status statistics, back into this article seems fairly likely at some point if it is not dissuaded.  — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼  10:17, 25 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Fair enough. No harm in keeping the record straight. Scolaire (talk) 10:55, 25 October 2015 (UTC)

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Peadar Ua Laoghaire
My thumb hit "Enter" while I was still typing this edit summary. It was meant to say, Ua Laoghaire was published as An tAthair Peadar Ua Laoghaire, not Father Peadar Ua Laoghaire. See the first edition of Séadna. Scolaire (talk) 13:30, 12 June 2018 (UTC)