# Irish language

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/irish-language/371647>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [September 6, 2006, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/irish-language/371647 "2006-09-06T15:58:12Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
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**Author:** ![handsomeharry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9c0ed/32.png) [@handsomeharry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handsomeharry)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2006, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/irish-language/371647/21 "2006-09-10T03:43:03Z")

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[QUOTE=irishgirl]  
**handsomeharry** - someone from Limerick, would, naturally be expected to have learned Munster Irish. This is probably the case, but I know of at least one person from the West who learnt Donegal (Ulster) Irish, because that was the dialect their Irish teachers spoke. I know someone else who was brought up in Cork in an Irish-speaking home, by parents from Donegal, she spoke Donegal Irish at home, and Munster Irish in school.

So…probably Munster, but not definitely.  
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Thanks, irishgirl! 🙂

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