Posted on 04/06/2010 4:24:41 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
I have the album but never got into it,all other albums up to Echoes are classic and never tire of listening to..
When we were touring there in 2001, our guides told us it was taught in all the schools. Whether I misunderstood, or not, I was on a bus on 9-11-01 between Blarney and Waterford when, suddenly our bus driver and our guide (who had been continuously joking and singing with us) suddenly got very quiet and addressed each other in Gaelic. My husband and I were sitting right behind them and we couldn’t understand a word they said. The guide turned away from the driver, and stepped one row back to us and addressed my husband in hushed tones.
He told us about what had happened earlier that day in NYC. Then he asked my husband, “What do you think I should do?” My husband replied, “Tell them, and then turn on the radio and turn up the volume so we all can hear!”
So, the guide made his way to the back of the bus, criss-crossing the aisle and notifying passengers in groups of 5 or 6. And we listened to Irish radio when the 2nd plane went into the tower, when they announced that another plane had flown into the Pentagon, when yet another crashed into the field in PA. We cheered President Bush’s words of encouragement and steely resolve to the nation.
That moment changed the rest of the trip and changed all of our lives forever. And it all started with a whispered conversation in a foreign country, in a language none of us understood - Gaelic.
My daughter was in London on 9-11-01 and she said there was a period of silence in downtown London when they got the word. Don’t remember how long she said it was but she said no one moved or spoke.
BTW, on Friday of that week we went to Mass at the Cathedral in Galway. The Mass was in Gaelic. I couldn’t even identify the Our Father, which I usually can in foreign languages — that’s how different Gaelic is to American ears! LOL. The President of Ireland led the procession of dignatories. And the offertory consisted of some equipment for the NY Firefighters from the Irish people. The entire country was shut down that Friday, except for necessities such as a few pharmacies. You couldn’t get fed, or a drink at a pub, unless you were a tourist already booked at a hotel. THe Irish populace had to eat and drink at home.
BTW, the Galway Cathedral is beautiful — all decorated with mosaic pictures in different colored stone from every county in Ireland. I don’t think there was any stained glass — just stone pictures which made it look like you were viewing them through a mist because the colors were so soft.
In Ireland they declared Friday of that week a whole day of mourning (see above). Nothing was open except for places that sold emergency supplies. We did not know if, or when, we could get out and I had brought only the right amount of medecine for our trip. I spent the afternoon in a Galway Pharmacy getting additional Lipitor. The pharmacist was so nice — called my home pharmacy in Wisconsin to work out the right measurement because US pills are in different dosages than the European counterparts. No charge for the long distance call.
The Cathedral was packed with tourists and townspeople. When we came out of Mass, the parking lot was filled with shoulder to shoulder people who could not get in and the priests distributed Communion to all who wanted it.
There were books of condolence that we could sign all over town and at the church too.
Yeah the older generation speak it especially in Galway ,i think the last gaeltacht is located in Galway,when i was a kid we were camping in Galway i tried to speak Gaelic to a barman he could not understand one word i said and i could not understand him either...
I believe the Gov invests money to keep the language alive,but as newer generations come along,they lose interest in learning it..
That is a very interesting story regarding 911...
Slainte....
The druids were not really a sect, more like the village shaman / witch doctor; their time had passed, the Romans wiped ‘em out in the parts of Britain they occupied, and Christian missionaries went beyond the frontiers into Ireland and Scotland with a more attractive deal.
The translation is “giddyap!”
Who was that masked man??? And there’s an indian...
Interesting!
During the simmering uprising that went from warm to hot a number of times, leading up to the Easter Rebellion, there were plenty of people speaking Gaelic, and even more who had grown up in Gaelic-speaking or bilingual homes. There were the treason songs — the English language verses were either comedic or romantic, and the Gaelic verses were about independence, freedom, kicking out the British, etc. One of the last of the Gaelic-only speakers can be seen (oddly enough) in Michael Wood’s “In Search of the Trojan War” documentary from over twenty years ago, a aging fisherman named John Henry.
Mathematics of ancient carvings reveals lost language
11:24 01 April 2010 by Kate Ravilious
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18725-mathematics-of-ancient-carvings-reveals-lost-language.html
Update ping — this TOPIC is from 2010, here’s a new story, apparently someone didn’t get the memo eight years ago. :^) Actually, I’ve been a big fan of Owen Jarus for years now.
‘Painted People’ in Scotland Developed Written Language 1,700 Years Ago
By Owen Jarus, Live Science Contributor | October 26, 2018
https://www.livescience.com/63933-picts-developed-written-language.html
Pictish written language discovered in Scotland
Posted on April 10, 2013 by TermCoord
A new language dating back to the Scottish Iron Age has been identified on carved stones.
https://termcoord.wordpress.com/2013/04/10/pictish-written-language-discovered-in-scotland/
Pictish stone marking site of the Battle of Mons Graupius?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3635398/posts?page=16#16
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