Have you ever heard of Irish "hedge schools." They taught kids cretely behind a row of hedges, so they could hide...simplfied version. Take away a person's ability to be educated and you limit his future, but try to take away their native tongue and they never shut up. LOL Barb drfarrell22@gmail.com writes: > Add all that to the criminalization of teaching the Irish to read and > write > and what do you have? A world power.