Touring the Dingle Peninsula with Chauffeur Drive Ireland West

An all-Irish road sign on the Dingle peninsula

Dingle is one of the Gaeltacht regions of southern Ireland. These designated areas are areas where the locals speak our native language which we call Irish. In an effort to protect and grow our native tongue the government create incentives for people who wish to remain in these areas or people who are prepared to set up businesses or industries here. They also will give grants to local people who want to build a home there and remain in the locality and therefore ensure that if these people have families their children will in turn be native speakers.This is having a very limited success and the future of this great language is far from ensured.In order to retain their Gaeltacht status there are conditions such as displaying the Irish language on all the road signs.I myself am a native speaker and hope that somehow or other our language will survive.Let us hope that it does.
Today i was once again on this wonderful peninsula tracing the locations of the Fitzgerald family who were known as the Knights of Kerry. They had a strong presence in this area and there are many ruined Fitzgerald castles here.If you want to learn more about this famous family just Google the "Fitzgeralds of Munster" and you will get plenty of their history.
Today i spent time in the Blasket Centre in Dunquin and this is a great place to visit if you want to learn more about the wonderful historic Blasket islands. There is a great little restaurant there also and today i enjoyed a bowl of their wonderful sea-food chowder. If you do get to Dingle make sure you visit this centre. The museum there is a treasure trove and the film on the Blaskets is well worth seeing.
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