Columba Books

‘A highly timely book. Pope Francis wants the whole church to discern together the way God wants the Church to go. This book helps a lot for a sane discernment of the style of synodality that really matters.’ Christoph Card. Schönborn, Archbishop of Vienna

Brian D'Arcy is one of Irelands best known and most admired priests. Through his weekly columns in the Sunday World he communicates with more people every Sunday than any cleric in the country.

The main objectives of the book are to assess the position of the Irish language in Ireland today, explore why Irish attracts such passionate feelings; to explain why extensive teaching of the Irish language has had almost no effect in making Irish speakers out of the general Irish population, and to outline how the language could be revived.