An Alappuzha Achayan parks his vallam and walks into an Irish Pub on the banks of An tSionnain

I knew to expect from history that English was a essentially just creole  or mixture of various Gaelic and Germanic languages. Before moving to Ireland to do my masters degree on the ides of March 2021, I tried a little Irish on the mobile app Duolingo and then realised where English gets its soul from. The body of English is of course Germanic (mostly Frisian, Dutch and Danish). The clothes are Latin fabric made by a Greek tailor. Sometimes the clothes make the man. Don't forget that French (another parent of the mongrel English) is itself just  a vulgar Latin with Norman (Nord-Mann - Norseman - North-men) and Gaulish grandparents. And Gauls are just European mainland Gaels. But while Duolingo rocked for Deutsch, it sucked for Irish. It was probably made worse by the fact that I studied German for 18 months. And the use of the Latin alphabet with ridiculous pronunciation styles doesn't help. I wonder why Irish Gaelige doesn't use something more native to the language like ...