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Re: Múinteoir Gaeilge - Teacher of Irish

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Well, I guess originally it was the intriguing orthography - but that's a little like saying you love your wife because she has brown hair, isn't it? Several years later and you'd expect there's a little more to it than that...

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My understanding is that the orthography was imported by monks from the court of Charlemagne - ogham (which actually is Unicoded) not really lending itself to pen and paper.
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