Learning Irish is an act of political revolution

[PlunkettsGhost]

I am embarking on a more serious bid to resurrect mo gaeilge . As we know, due to the influx of non nationals, Irish has been given short shrift in terms of its status in the cannon of Irish education.

It will soon be a private matter to maintain spoken and written Irish . I dare say it will be considered right wing soon enough, if it hasn't already.

I ressurected my Duolingo Irish course this morning and have some books on order. I have deliberately ordered Irish language novels from here, that I will translate as I go:

Gaeilge / Irish language books | Online Bookshop | Leabhar Breac

We stock wide range of Gaeilge / Irish language books. We delivery all over the world. Buy online at our bookshop today.

leabharbreac.com

 

[PlunkettsGhost]

After Marian's daughter relocated to Ireland, she decided to start learning Irish. Marian shares her journey of learning and using Irish, along with her thoughts on language acquisition and her personal goals in mastering the Irish language

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-qlL9Uqg6k

 

[PlunkettsGhost]

Duolingo is free to get going on:

Learn a language for free

Learn languages by playing a game. It's 100% free, fun, and scientifically proven to work.

www.duolingo.com

 

[PlunkettsGhost]

I am also about to read this book by Irish philosopher Desmond Fennel:

 

[PlunkettsGhost]

the time has come to ask the what happened our sense of identity? In this hard-hitting, thoughtful book, Desmond Fennell provides a searching analysis of the values of an independent Ireland, and the steady process of cultural denationalisation that has sapped our vitality over the past sixty years

 

[PlunkettsGhost]

When you attack and eradicate the language of people, you damage and undermine the historical memory and sense of self

 

[PlunkettsGhost]

The academic journal Léann is published as part of Leabhar Breac’s great range of Irish language books. Léann covers such varied subjects as history, folklore, literature, philosophy, language planning and anthropology, and is available from our online book shop.

Cumann Léann na Litríochta - Leabhar Breac - Léann 6

Léann 6, Cumann Léann na Litríochta: The academic journal Léann is published as part of Leabhar Breac's great range of Irish language books. Léann covers such varied subjects as history, folklore, literature, philosophy, language planning and anthropology, and is available from our online book shop.

leabharbreac.com

 

[PlunkettsGhost]

There are loads of YouTube channels also:

Gaeilge i mo chroí

Dia duit! 😊👋 Ar mhaith leat Gaeilge a fhoghlaim? Ba mhaith? Bhuel tá tú san áit cheart 😁 Déanaim físeáin as Gaeilge ag míniú gramadaí, ag roinnt nathanna, ag labhairt le daoine eile agus déanaim vlogs as Gaeilge 🇮🇪 💚 Is breá liom mo theanga agus ba bhreá liom í a roinnt leat! Hello! Would you...

www.youtube.com

 

[Wolf]

Dirty yanks claiming to be learning Irish, eh?
Plastic Paddies!!!

 

[PlunkettsGhost]

I'm going to be running Radio Na Gaeltachta in the background a lot also:

RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta

Stáisiún Náisiúnta na Gaeltachta agus na Gaeilge, ag craoladh as Gaeilge. | National radio station in Ireland, broadcasting in Irish.

www.rte.ie

 

[PlunkettsGhost]

She's shaming us lads. Fair play to her.


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRg7wIWhfNY

 

[Professor]

I'm in, it's time!!

Go raibh maith agut don dea-smaoineamh PG

 

[PlunkettsGhost]

Go raibh maith agut don dea-smaoineamh PG

Is é do bheatha

 

[PlunkettsGhost]

The Irish online dictionary will be permanently open going forward , ass I build my vocab:

Dictionary and Language Library

www.teanglann.ie

 

[PlunkettsGhost]

Useful list of resources here:

Useful Links

Online language courseswww.ranganna.com - Online Irish courses at various levels.http://talkirish.com/online-irish-course/ - 60 interactive online Irish lessons. The first lesson is free.www.101languages.net/irish/ - This site has a number of English to Irish phrases as well as other useful...

www.liofa.eu

 

[Declan]

Get the Mango app.

irish is one of the languages free there.

if you are serious, i will help and pronounce each word, that is the hard part, and do a lesson each day. Maybe 10 minutes

 

[Declan]

One could do mango and duolingo at the same time, slowly but steadily

 

[PlunkettsGhost]

Irish language learning books here:

Baile - An Siopa Leabhar

I mBéal an Phobail Ceannaigh dearbhán Cliceáil anseo Leabhair Scoile Bunscoil Meánscoil Féiríní agus earraí tí Ar Athláimh / Seoda Tabhair cuairt ar Chatagóir Cuir Fáinne Ort Féin Tabhair cuairt ar Chatagóir

www.siopaleabhar.com

 

[Declan]

That might be jumping the gun a bit but Bunts Cainnte is on www.Memrise.com

That was s a great site for all languages and other stuff, it takes a bit of searching to find irish there

 

[Alasdair Mac Colla]

I am embarking on a more serious bid to resurrect mo gaeilge .

*mo chuid Gaeilge.

 

[Fam Shox]

I am embarking on a more serious bid to resurrect mo gaeilge . As we know, due to the influx of non nationals, Irish has been given short shrift in terms of its status in the cannon of Irish education.

It will soon be a private matter to maintain spoken and written Irish . I dare say it will be considered right wing soon enough, if it hasn't already.

I ressurected my Duolingo Irish course this morning and have some books on order. I have deliberately ordered Irish language novels from here, that I will translate as I go:

Gaeilge / Irish language books | Online Bookshop | Leabhar Breac

We stock wide range of Gaeilge / Irish language books. We delivery all over the world. Buy online at our bookshop today.

leabharbreac.com

The irish have a problem with language, period. Its a revolutionary and evolutionary thing to speak the truth now, something we find hard to do in any language. I don't believe in the 'tir gan teanga tir gan anam' stuff anymore, and I printed enuf tshirts with that on it in my day. I will do up a 'tir gan firinne tir gan teanga' tshirt and see how they sell.

 

[PlunkettsGhost]

*mo chuid Gaeilge.

A learning moment:

Mo chuid airgid / My money

Which is correct: 'mo chuid gruaige' or 'mo ghruaig'? Watch the short video above for a simple and clear explanation as to when to use 'cuid' in Irish in relation to possession. Follow All About Irish for simple and easy tips about learning Irish; grammar tips; and songs and poems in Irish.

www.allaboutirish.ie

 

[Declan]

Just learning even one thing a day is the way to go

 

[nobody knows I'm a dog]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whhKCs2p178&list=PLh4zGWS0LXNz56JembV3j2GaI4GPkx14i


I once heard about someone famous who learned An Bearla through listening to Elvis Presley, can't remember who the famous person was though.

 

[Tiger]

This short film from 2003 had an interesting twist on learning the Irish language


View: https://youtu.be/JqYtG9BNhfM?feature=shared

 

[Professor]

Tir Gan Fir a bhfuil Tir Gan Liathróidí

 

[Declan]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whhKCs2p178&list=PLh4zGWS0LXNz56JembV3j2GaI4GPkx14i


I once heard about someone famous who learned An Bearla through listening to Elvis Presley, can't remember who the famous person was though.

Maybe @valamhic

 

[valamhic]

Maybe @valamhic

Valamhic can speak Irish reasonably good.

 

[Declan]

compared to an bhéarla

 

[Jay Homer Simpson]

I can speak Irish but I can't read or spell it.

 

[Myles O'Reilly]

She's shaming us lads. Fair play to her.

She's a mad sounding Chink

 

[valamhic]

I can speak Irish but I can't read or spell it.

My measure is if I can understand the news Nuacht. I cannot fully do so. I was taught in mostly Irish at National School by a Donegal cruel masted from Milford. I can spell much better in Irish than English. Many of my associates including protestants use Irish words and phrases interchangeably. Blue Mickey had a short term girl Friend who grew holidayed in a Gaeltacht
and he would ask me to give him a few rosmantic words from my repitore. I told him half right and half wrong.

D'iosfainn sceallogy as mala a bhi in do laimha no as do fo-eadai. I put in the last bit.

 

[PlunkettsGhost]

Another online resource:

Cumann Carad Na Gaeilge

www.philo-celtic.com

In 1872, Micheál Ó Lóchàin published letters in The Irish World, one of many Irish Newspapers in America, under the pen name 'Gael' referencing "...the neglect to cultivate the National tongue ... suggesting the necessity of preserving the Irish language in order to preserve Irish nationality..."

He recommended establishing classes and Irish language organizations to solve this problem.

(Source: "'An Gaodhal' i Meiriceá" by Breandán Ó Buachalla in the book Go Meiriceá Siar, edited by Stíofán Ó hAnnracháin. Dublin, An Clóchomhar Teo., p. 38)

 

[PlunkettsGhost]

@Declan Can we ban @Myles O'Reilly from this thread? He clearly has no interest beyond belligerency

 

[PlunkettsGhost]

Or move it to my blog

 

[Declan]

That is the reason you have a blog!!!

i will when i get home

 

[PlunkettsGhost]

“If we lose the Irish language, we'll lose our native literature. We'll only have English or American literature. That will be our demise as a people. The vision that every generation of Irish people had will be at an end." - Máirtín Ó Cadhain

View: https://x.com/PangurBn10/status/1613579119568244743

 

[PlunkettsGhost]

The Political Value of the Irish Language​

Daniel O’Connell killed the Irish language politically. In his day the Irish speakers formed the vast majority of the total population. In 1836 Lord Lyndhurst referred to Irish Catholics who sought equality with Protestants as ‘aliens in blood, in religion and in language.’

It is now commonly accepted that Ireland without its language cannot lay claim to nationhood, though it might obtain political independence. Without the language, but with political independence, it might, owing to its insular situation, resist Anglicising influences for generations.

A people devoted to the national language are a patriotic people. A people who let their language die will let their country slip into the hands of the enemy

The Political Value of the Irish Language – Cartlann

cartlann.org

 

[Declan]

View: https://x.com/pangurbn10/status/1613578540594642944?s=46


That slimey snail Conor Cruise O Brien was destroying An Gaeilge in the 1970s

 

[Myles O'Reilly]

Conor O'Brien hung Pat Quinlan and the men of Jadotville out to dry too.