Eugene McAteer is the brains behind the ‘pop-up’ style classes in Brisbane
In what must be the furthest Gaeltacht from the Gaeltacht, , almost 17,000km from the west coast of Ireland.
“We don’t really have an agenda, it’s just a bit of craic. And we would have a little text group where we would add a few phrases. It’s good craic.” “It’s great to be able to speak Irish here and to have the camaraderie and to have people who are thinking the same thing,” he said. Currently, the community of first-generation Irish stands at around 8,000, with more than double that figure claiming second-generation status.
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