evidence: 4. Unfortunately no Leinster Irish remains. There is a Gaeltacht in Leinster, in Co. Meath, but Leinster Irish is not spoken there. The reason is that this Gaeltacht is somewhat different. In every other Gaeltacht Irish has been spoken continuosly for at least 2.000 years - as it once was in all of Ireland. These areas are to be found in Munster, Connacht and Ulster. The Gaeltacht in Leinster was founded in the 1930s when many peasants from over-crowded Conamara moved to new land. They kept their language, which is the same dialect as that of Ceantar na n-Oileán, a subdialect of Connacht Irish. Traditional Leinster Irish has been dead as a community language for more that 100 years and the last native speakers of Leinster Irish died in the early 1950s. [...] Dawn, yes I've seen the page. It is written by another person from Finland, Panu Höglund. He speaks Ulster Irish. [...] The Midwest American dialects are a different story. I've met some speakers from the Midwest, most of them Irish in fact, but I can't say that I've found their English sounding particularly like any form of Hiberno-English (meaning the form of English spoken in the line south of Dundalk-Sligo, Ulster-English north of it). That is not to say that there aren't similarities, I just mean that I don't know them.