Thanks to Donal Kennedy for sending me this interesting link. I think it catches the respect with which Dev approached minority languages in general. What a good example to our elected representatives…
http://www.manxradio.com/news/isle-of-man-news/grandson-of-de-valera-follows-footsteps/

Maith tú a Eamon,
The man whom, near single handedly brought our First National Language to being one of the ‘official languages’ of the EU.