Hollywood A lister, Oscar winner and all round legend Matthew McConaughey has told The Sun that he would like his kids to learn Irish in the Gaeltacht.
via DailyMailHis mammy's family came from Cavan and Monaghan, and he wants eight-year-old Levi, Vida, six, and Livingston, four, to 'embrace their Celtic background'.
He told The Sun:
My kids are really privileged to call themselves Brazilian Irish. mIrish Brazilian, how great is that? Connected to two of the most vibrant, colourful, exciting cultures on the planet. Both very different yet with so many similarities. It’s beautiful. It’s a gift. My wife, she’s on top of things, she’s got them with the music, the food, she’s got them speaking Portuguese, a lot of which I don’t understand. They’re talking about me, plotting against me. I gotta keep up the Gaelic. I want them reading the literature, I want Riverdancing, I want them saying, ‘grand’ and ‘lunatic to the marvellous. When they’re older, I want to send them to that Irish language summer camp you guys do, it’s like a rite of passage for you guys, isn’t it? When you’re teenagers. I want them fluent — which means I gotta do a crash course too.
His new movie, Free State Of Jones, hits cinemas September 30th.
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