#That's is all goodnight

[r4c0ons]

A part of ne becomes very patriotic and annoyed when I see RDR art or fics where Irish characters speak Irish.

Lets go on a little history journey shall we

RDR2 is set in 1899 all the Irish characters in the game would have emigrated from Ireland because they wanted to get a better life.

Kieran was born in America. His father emigrated from Ireland possibly after or during the Great Famine.

He cannot speak Irish

His name is not spelt the Irish way

Because he is American.

Seán was born and raised in Ireland. His parents are from Ireland. He is from Donegal. Which was a heavily British county at the time.

He has been to Connemara in Galway with his father as he says it in the game. Connemara is a Gaeltacht. This does not mean he can speak Irish.

He had to have lived in Ireland for at least 15 years to keep the accent but he still would not be able to speak Irish.

As it was dying out.

He maybe could speak a few words or phrases but he would not be fluent.

Molly O'Shea.

Whenever I see art or stories about her when she's talking about being Irish oh I hate it.

She is from Dublin. Which is in the Pale. The area where most British people lived. The richest parts of Ireland. She would not be able to speak Irish.

She hates being irish. She says it multiple times in the game. She moved to America to get a better life because of how bad irish people were treated (which was not much better in America but we will get to that).

She cannot speak Irish her name is not an riish version.

She would also most likely be protestant and get with fights with Seán.

Colm O'Driscoll.

Now we know that Colm is an old man but how old?

He was born in 1845. What year was that? The year the Great Famine begun.

He is (most likely) from Cork. Which is on the west side of Ireland. Not the side you would want to be on during the Famine.

If you don't know what the Famine was here's a little lesson.

The Great Famine begun in 1845 when a potato blight spread across the potato crop causing them to rot and be inedible.

Because the potato was cheap and easy to grow the Irish relied heavily on it.

The average adult male would eat about 12-14 potatoes a day.

Because of thsi over reliance people begun to starve and die.

They had to travel to ports to go on ships -that were often known as coffin boats because of how many people died on them- to escape.

Most people who died were on the west side.

it ended around 1850 but that date is debatable.

He is not going to be able to speak Irish either. He would not be sent to school in these conditions or have time learn it as it is not the main language.

Now. Colm would have been a malnourished child. And because we know he has a brother who moved to America with him when they were both young we can assume that their parents died or sent them off to have a better life and not die in Ireland.

America was not a nice place to be irish at this time.

This sign here. Because of the hundreds of thousands of Irish people emigrating to America during these years the Irish were discriminated againt.

This means that Colm and his brother would have been left on the streets with no job or shelter.

This is why they create the gang. Every irish person that moves ot is born in America cannot get a job so they are invited into the gang. This would provide them with friends shelter and food.

A better option than dying.

Colm also as kieran says is American and dosent want his name to be pronounced in irish is because he hates being irish.

Now onto why irish is not spoken and these characters have some fo the lowest chances of speaking irish in any media.

Modern characters could possibly. Ancient characters could. But not during these times.

When the English first invaded Ireland they put their religion and language onto the Irish.

If you spoke Irish around an English soldier guess what.

You would be killed.

Even when you see irish city names they were all originally in irish. The English solider would come uo to the Irish person, ask where they were, get a reply in irish, write it down as they heard it, and kill the irish.

As a result of this the Irish language died out.

It is only now being slowly reintroduced.

Ive been learning Irish my entire life and I'm not fluent in it.

No Red Dead Redemption character would be able to speak Irish.

Yes Connemara is a Gaeltacht (a place that only speaks irish) and Seán has been there. But it would only be slowly being rebuilt into a Gaeltacht at the time.

NOBODY CAN SPEAK IRISH AND NOBODYS NAME IS SPELT THE IRISH WAY (except sean) THANK YOU.

No hate to anyone who does this btw it's just something that annoys me.

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