As an aside, I'm not sure it's true that speaking Gaelic was outlawed in Northern Ireland - I don't know lots about it but what I gathered from a bit of a google search is that Gaelic was deliberately not promoted in Northern Ireland but it wasn't ever the case that it was against the law or anything. I also don't think it was the case that in the 80s/90s/00s (extrapolating the OP's age from her pregnancy) that participating in Irish culture was banned either.