Dictionary Entry

Is leide ar a easnamh í is a bhí traidisiún scríofa na Gaeilge i gConnachta in aimsir Rocard Bairéad nár fhoghlaim Rocard féin scríobh na Gaeilge go raibh sé meánaosta.

It is an indication of its decline, as was the written tradition of Irish in Connacht in the time of Rocard Bairéad, that Rocard himself did not learn to write Irish until he was middle-aged.