Letter: An Irish judge had a quirky plan to revive the language
Walls Dickie's piece on Scotland's attempt to stem Gaelic's decline (Report, 30 December) reminds me of a proposal by the Irish judge, playwright and wit, Mr. Judge Richard Johnson, who was appointed during the Civil War in Kerry, an area of ​​Ireland that had a larger Gaelic-speaking population than it has today.
He was intimately familiar with the turbulent and argumentative tendencies of his countrymen, and he suggested that the best way to ensure that the national goal of reviving the language would be to fine anyone who speaks it.
Professor John Horgan
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