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Polish Silesian Autonomy movement [67]
the 19th century Polish was less attractive because
one thing was that the populace spoke Polish at home - this is where Polish children learned the language - any education in German or Russian started much later in school - this is not the case for the most part with Irish or Scottish Gealic (don't really know about the situation of Welsh in northern Wales but most people in southern Wales simply speak English) -
in general for 19th century Poland it was a question of 1) momentum (Polish just didn't vanish overnight) 2) identity (the German, Austrian and Russian occupants were perceived as hostile)
I'm not an expert on Irish - and my knowledge(?) on the subject stems from a quote from Sinead O'Connor's song "Famine" but... weren't the Irish in the time of The Potato Famine and afterwards, paid not to teach their children Irish?