Sir, – I concur with Hilda Geraghty on the beauty of Irish script (Letters, April 29th). I did my Leaving Cert in 1959 and used the buailte or séimhiú when writing in Irish. I never accepted the H of ...
The symbols we use to write words evolve to become visually simpler over time, and an analysis of a writing system from West Africa shows that they can do so over just a few generations. The script ...
A chara, – I was glad to see a reference to the two scripts of Irish (Letters, April 28th), the Cló Romhánach and the Cló Gaelach. Many younger people are unaware that Irish had this elegant, simpler ...