A brief encounter as Gaeilge by the chocolate bars has left me looking for ways to get closer to the Irish language
Him, telling me where his siblings were now and how his wife had just given birth to their first baby. As I looked at him, something in his twinkly blue eyes, jogged my memory. I suddenly had a visceral reminder that I had really – and I mean really – fancied this person at one point back in the day. I blushed deeper by the chocolate bars. We said our slán go fóills. I stood there, a bit shook.
I felt embarrassed that I didn’t understand what he’d been saying to me when he first approached. And I realised that, since watching An Cailín Ciúin – three times now and counting – I’d been feeling a sort of unarticulated, low grade sadness about my lack of engagement with the Irish language. I must have been able to speak it once, playing swingball and learning Irish songs in Glanmire, but I’d be hard pressed to have a decent conversation with anybody as Gaeilge now.
“Shame on me,” you can hear Farrell saying off-camera and a lot of us felt his pain. Then there was Normal People and Aftersun’s Paul Mescal who gamely took on the challenge, carrying off a great chat in his rusty school Irish.
Our exchange reminded me that I once wrote a column describing him as an “ardent Gaeilgeoir”. He took me to task for it afterwards.
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