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Tír gan teanga, tír gan anam

A country without a language is a country without a soul.

For language-revival contexts, a rallying cry rather than a blessing.

Tír ganteanga, tírgan anam A country without a language is a country without a soul. THE BRENNAN FAMILY · EST. 1994 Tír gan teanga, tír gan anamSeanfhocal · Irish proverbSay it: cheer gon TANG-a, cheer gon AH-numGovernment of Ireland · seanfhocail.ie

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About this saying

The motto of the language revival, and the line that carried a movement: a country without a language is a country without a soul. It is universally attributed to Patrick Pearse, Pádraig Mac Piarais, teacher, writer, and executed leader of the 1916 Rising. Though he may have adopted an existing slogan rather than coined it, and the record’s note says so. Unusually for this site, it is a modern authored saying rather than folk tradition, published under the policy that attributed modern sayings are in scope when the page states the attribution.