# Stephen Fry speaking in Irish (Gaelic).

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**Created:** [March 3, 2011, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-fry-speaking-in-irish-gaelic/573413 "2011-03-03T22:12:47Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 3, 2011, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-fry-speaking-in-irish-gaelic/573413/1 "2011-03-03T22:12:47Z")

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He had a cameo on an Irish language soap called _Ros na Rún_.

[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/7_VNWru5y6U/hqdefault.jpg "Stephen Fry's cameo on Ros na Rún") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_VNWru5y6U)

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**Post date:** [March 3, 2011, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-fry-speaking-in-irish-gaelic/573413/2 "2011-03-03T22:19:35Z")

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Is this for some show he’s doing? He’s been tweeting about speaking Irish, and also about having a small part in a production of Hamlet, done in the original Klingon.

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**Post date:** [March 3, 2011, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-fry-speaking-in-irish-gaelic/573413/3 "2011-03-03T22:24:10Z")

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> [@Baron\_Greenback](#):
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> Is this for some show he’s doing? He’s been tweeting about speaking Irish, and also about having a small part in a production of Hamlet, done in the original Klingon.

I think he’s doing a BBC show called Planet Word or something like that about minority languages and they thought it would be funny to get him on TG4’s _Ros Na Rún_.

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**Post date:** [March 3, 2011, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-fry-speaking-in-irish-gaelic/573413/4 "2011-03-03T22:38:39Z")

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He was here in Israel last month doing a segment about Hebrew. My wife - a Stephen Fry superfan - tracked him down from his tweets and managed to get an autograph and picture by the Israel Museum in Jerusalem where he was filming something about the Dead Sea Scrolls.