Quote Originally Posted by jthk View Post
Hello! FYI Irish is spoken by approximately 143,250 native speakers and by approx. 1.2 million people on the island of Ireland.

Outside of Ireland, here in the US (well, I'm in Ireland for the summer but ...) approx 21,000 people speak Irish at home, including my family.

There we go!
Jonathan
According to the 2011 census, 82,600 in Ireland speak Irish outside of school (where it is an obligatory subject). Obviously, because it is compulsory to study Irish in school, a larger number will have some understanding of the language just as for the figures for Wales and Scotland.

Alan