Can Americans Speak Irish?

Clare Cullen / Clisare
3 min readApr 11, 2022

The Irish language is often a controversial topic. According to the 2016 Census, only 40% of Irish people identified as being able to speak the language, and Irish people hailing from Irish-first (Gaeltacht) areas had dropped by over 2,500 (since 2011 Census) to 96,090, of which only 20,596 reported speaking Irish daily.

I create video content online relating to the Irish language, from teaching people How To Curse

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Clare Cullen / Clisare

YouTube Content Creator & Twitch Streamer. I use Medium to share and expand on my video features on YouTube.