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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.

Surname or "The ___ family"Seán deserves his fadaEstablished (year)

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Framed 28 × 35.5 cm (11 × 14 in), print area 20 × 28 cm. Natural oak-finish frame, snow-white mount, enhanced matte art paper 200 gsm, Perspex glaze, ready to hang. Made to order, wording quoted exactly from the cited source, every fada correct.

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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.