Irish Languages

Hi guys!  When I was investigating about the languages of Ireland I found some really interesting information about their language, specially about the percentages of the official languages in both Irelands, North Ireland speaks more English (98%) than Irish (95%) and in South Ireland people speaks more Irish (97%) than English (94%), also there are many other languages in the country like Shelta, Manx, Breton, Scottish and other foreign languages as Spanish, Japanese, Portuguese and the list goes on.

More important, the levels of Irish speakers in North Ireland are increasing, why is that happening? because the education in north Ireland is introducing Irish in their subjects , so that way instead of imitating England (we have to consider that North Ireland has the same religion, the same celebrations, and the same government system) they are demonstrating that they are  not part of England and that they are different form them, but in my opinion most of them are frustrated British because they are more similar than England that to their brother of the south.

In South Ireland, English is the second official language because of the cultural mix that they have, there are so many languages that Irish is not known in the entire world so in many public places English is more used than Irish, which is used in schools and in the government building, but the documents are written in both languages, that way people who doesn't know Irish can read them in English, that way there are not misunderstandings.

In the other side the travellers community (we could call them gypsies) in Ireland speaks more English, but they have their own language: Shelta, which is a mix of Irish and English, unfortunately the travellers are excluded from the society because of their culture of being nomads and staying in places where they shouldn't stay.