My family don't come from Gaeltacht areas, and have not been speaking Irish at home since before the Famine. My grandmother went to an Irish-medium school where the nuns beat kids who were caught speaking English! 
I think those factors, as well as her moving to England, contributed to none of her children speaking it. I'm looking to get back to my roots and learn a bit of Irish (and possibly Scots Gaelic), but as a native speaker of English the grammar mutations are a bit too much for me at the moment... considering I speak and write Japanese with some proficency that's saying something!
[CENTER][B][COLOR="#0000CD"]PROUD[/COLOR] [COLOR="#FFD700"]YORKSHIRE[/COLOR] [COLOR="#0000CD"]KILTIE[/COLOR]
[COLOR="#0000CD"]Scottish[/COLOR] clans: Fletcher, McGregor and Forbes
[COLOR="#008000"]Irish[/COLOR] clans: O'Brien, Ryan and many others
[COLOR="#008000"]Irish[/COLOR]/[COLOR="#FF0000"]Welsh[/COLOR] families: Carey[/B][/CENTER]
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