Gaelic

Does Irish, Scotish and Manx Gaelic speakers have contests in literature
and like?

Sort of a good natured compeition.. True about a language to live, has
to have purpose, usefulness. People speak Ebonics cause it is relevent
to their world.
Their neighbors speak it, at work they speak it.. So people have no
reason to not just speak it, unless they want to get out of the
neighbourhood. Like a job in broadcasting. Where to get a job there, you
need to speak basically Midwestern US/Canadian English.

Gaelic needs to do the same. People have little reasons to speak Gaelic.
Other than for local reasons.  Sort of like how Immigrant kids speak the
language of their parents and to a degree grandparents.

We have some of the same problems here in Alaska. Were we have atleast 2
major dialects of Athabaskan. 2 or more dialects of Inuit/Inupiaq, and
then SiberianYupik and Yupik (some 2-3 dialects). They don't have a
center for what to speak the language. Other than the Yupik and Siberian
Yupiks (for the most part).

Cause they are isolated, all their family speaks the lingo, they speak
it all the time with each other, and they have a center. A feeling of
being Yupik or Siberian Yupik.

Don't know if they have much literature in common, though. But they have
towns where most people all speak the lingo in common. There has not
been much interuption by western culture (English). Though MTV is not
helping.
I expect to survive the 21st century, they will have to developed even
stronger ties. A sense of nationhood, of being one. Especially a written
form of the language is good. And there is, but ..

Mike