The nation of Ireland is not merely its current population, nor its government, nor its institutions. The nation is the living and the unborn together. It is the land, the rivers, the seas, the mountains, the soil, and every living thing that shares this island. It is the culture, the language, the memory, the stories, the music, and the accumulated wisdom of every generation that came before. It is the future that every generation that comes after shall inherit.
No act of government, no financial arrangement, no treaty, no contract, and no decision of any kind shall be made at the expense of the nation. Where this constitution uses the word nation, it carries this full meaning. The people are its voice. The land is its body. The culture is its soul. The future is its purpose.
Cló Gaelach — the traditional script of the Irish language, developed over centuries as the authentic written form of Irish — is the national script of Ireland. It is the script in which the primary text of this constitution is written and in which all official state documents in the Irish language shall be produced. The state has an active duty to teach Cló Gaelach to every Irish child as part of their Irish language education, to ensure its use in public signage, official communications, and state publications in Irish, and to support its continued development as a living written tradition rather than a museum piece. No policy of the state shall treat Cló Gaelach as archaic, optional, or 3 subordinate to any other written form. It is the written face of the Irish nation and shall be treated accordingly. Where the Irish language is used in any official state capacity — in legislation, in court proceedings, in public signage, in government communications, and in all other official contexts — it shall be written in Cló Gaelach unless the specific context makes this genuinely impractical, in which case a Roman script rendering may be used alongside the Cló Gaelach form, never instead of it.