(it's mostly a link to a streaming vid when you visit the original)
(it's mostly a link to a streaming vid when you visit the original)
It is a beautiful language and the language of my ancestors.
When I hear it spoken or sung I have a deep emotional reaction.
Here is a song from the 11th century, sung in the original 11th century Irish:
But will it help me learn to talk like a pirate?
These Celtic languages are really tough. It’s a bunch of difficult sounds and complicated grammar.
Only Irish, Manx, and Scots Gaelic are close to each other, Welsh, Breton, and Cornish are off on a different tree.
“Erin go braugh” (Gaelic sex talk/foreplay: “Brace yourself lass.”)
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¡ ɔıןqndǝɹ ǝǝɹɟ uo spuǝıɹɟ ʎɯ oʇ ʎɐp sʞɔıɹʇɐd ʇs ʎddɐɥ
The University where I work introduced Irish as a language option four years ago. The class typically fills to a capacity of 20, by the time the last day comes to ‘drop without a grade” half the class is out. Come second semester, only 5-6 typically continue. Looks difficult but one of these years I am going to give it a shot.
IBIJ (In Before Irish Jokes!)
I have a problem with people who define themselves as hyphenated Americans.
Be American or be gone.
