{"id":959,"date":"2010-12-08T22:40:29","date_gmt":"2010-12-08T22:40:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/?p=959"},"modified":"2010-12-14T22:45:14","modified_gmt":"2010-12-14T22:45:14","slug":"stephen-fry-tries-irish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/08\/stephen-fry-tries-irish\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Fry tries Irish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen Fry has filmed a cameo for the popular Irish soap <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ros_na_R%C3%BAn\">Ros na R\u00fan<\/a> \u2013 in an Irish speaking part.<\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.ie\/entertainment\/tv-radio\/fry-gets-to-grips-with-gaeilge-for-ros-na-run-role-2450520.html\">Independent<\/a>, Fry said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I&#8217;m doing a documentary on languages and this is the heartland of Irish-speaking Ireland &#8212; we&#8217;re just having conversations about the language and how it goes forward and whether the young generation are picking it up and the rest of it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I will be playing a bewildered tourist on &#8216;Ros na Run&#8217;. The great thing is, because I&#8217;m a tourist, I don&#8217;t have to speak it very well, just make an effort&#8221;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Around 350,000 people in Ireland say they speak Irish regularly (according to the 1996 census) &#8211; the attention that Fry will bring to the language will surely be a boost to its popularity. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen Fry has filmed a cameo for the popular Irish soap Ros na R\u00fan \u2013 in an Irish speaking part. According to the Independent, Fry said: &#8220;I&#8217;m doing a documentary on languages and this is the heartland of Irish-speaking Ireland &#8212; we&#8217;re just having conversations about the language and how it goes forward and whether [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100,364],"tags":[364,914,913,912,163],"class_list":["post-959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-gaelic","tag-gaelic","tag-gaelic-language","tag-irish-language","tag-ros-na-run","tag-stephen-fry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=959"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":962,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959\/revisions\/962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}