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Englishman had stroke and wakes up speaking Welsh to doctors

Similar case to Englishman who spoke with Irish accent after brain surgery

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I heard that Niall O'Dowd woke up after the flu and found that he was no longer anti-Catholic and was no longer pushing abortion at every turn.....
CANT BELIEVE ALL THE ANTI ENGLISH COMMENTS ON HERE COMING MAINLY FROM AMERICANS.. IM IRISH I LIVE IN IRELAND AND IM 100% WE DO NOT SHARE YOUR ANTI ENGLISHISM OVER HERE IN IRELAND IM AFRAID NOT IN 2012 .... SORRY GUYS...
Don't be so stupid, Bobby, it is NOT the fault of foreign migrants that some guy had a stroke. What a dumb thing to say. Though perhaps if you had a stroke you'd wake up talking sense!
Bobby--Foreign migrants in Ireland are to blame for someone having a stroke? Don't be such an idiot.
I speak rudimentary Irish and I hope if I ever have a stroke that I'll come out of it speaking in fluent Irish.
All those immigrants Woundedknee, its all their fault.
Solidarity ! on the prospect of a Welsh Republic !
To this very day I speak conversational French with a Parisian accent because a very good (Irish-American, by the way) French teacher of mine way back in the day spoke French with a Parisian accent. "Nothing else will do", Mr. Holihan told us blue collar boys at Power Memorial Academy. (I don't know what this commenthas to do with the subject of this article, either.)
donal1951>>Prasie God he was in Ireland? Well, if he was in an Irish hospital today he'd need to know Urdu or Tagalog, Irish would be no use to him.
The Irish and Welsh spirits of old are taking revenge by haunting the English. lol
My father, born in Galway near the turn of the 20th century was bilingual as a child, speaking Irish and English. He emigrated and for lack of use lost his Irish. During the final stages of the dementia that took his life, he could not speak English, only Irish. Praise God he was in hospital in Ireland.
I can just hear the old jokes being resurrected now "How do you turn an Englishman into a Welshman?" "Cut out part of his brain"
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