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Irish language gains popularity among US students
BBC News ^ | March 15, 2012 | unattributed

Posted on 03/17/2012 10:14:41 AM PDT by SunkenCiv

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Irish language gains popularity among US students

1 posted on 03/17/2012 10:14:49 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv

It is a beautiful language and the language of my ancestors.

When I hear it spoken or sung I have a deep emotional reaction.


2 posted on 03/17/2012 10:16:03 AM PDT by freedumb2003 (Spoiler Alert! The secret to Terra Nova: THEY ARE ALL DEAD!!!)
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To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; decimon; 1010RD; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; ...

 GGG managers are SunkenCiv, StayAt HomeMother & Ernest_at_the_Beach
Happy St Patrick's Day!

To all -- please ping me to other topics which are appropriate for the GGG list.


3 posted on 03/17/2012 10:18:07 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him)
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To: SunkenCiv
How cool!!

Here is a song from the 11th century, sung in the original 11th century Irish:

I Am Eve

4 posted on 03/17/2012 10:25:26 AM PDT by GiovannaNicoletta ("....in the last days, mockers will come with their mocking... (2 Peter 3:3))
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To: SunkenCiv

But will it help me learn to talk like a pirate?


5 posted on 03/17/2012 10:31:17 AM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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To: SunkenCiv

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.


6 posted on 03/17/2012 10:32:25 AM PDT by proxy_user
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To: SunkenCiv
My husband, Pat, passed away Feb. 11. St. Patrick's Day is his favorite day of the year, and he always went all out to celebrate. For his birthday one year, I had a friend do a caricature of him. The picture is a perfect caricature.
7 posted on 03/17/2012 10:32:32 AM PDT by Jaidyn
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To: freedumb2003

The language that was spoken by my Irish ancestors was Low Land Scots, driven from Ireland by the Rack Rents in 1703.


8 posted on 03/17/2012 10:33:27 AM PDT by Little Bill (Sorry)
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To: Jack Hydrazine
is international-talk-like-a-pirate-day, still on Sept. 19?
iirc, it wasn't posted last year...or i must've missed it. :-\

9 posted on 03/17/2012 10:38:17 AM PDT by skinkinthegrass (Simple: Kill the terrorists, Protect (all) the borders, ridicule all the (surviving) Liberals :^)
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To: Jaidyn

I am sorry for your loss.

I am sure it was because of the “luck of the Irish” he found you.


10 posted on 03/17/2012 10:44:48 AM PDT by JohnG45
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To: GiovannaNicoletta
*cue-up/*
theme to Last of the Mohicans...otherwise known as "the Gael"
*/cue-up*
beautiful rendition on u-tube keywords "last of the Mohicans;felixps0000"

11 posted on 03/17/2012 10:51:39 AM PDT by skinkinthegrass (Simple: Kill the terrorists, Protect (all) the borders, ridicule all the (surviving) Liberals :^)
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To: skinkinthegrass

I think so!
http://www.talklikeapirate.com/


12 posted on 03/17/2012 10:52:23 AM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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To: SunkenCiv

“Erin go braugh” (Gaelic sex talk/foreplay: “Brace yourself lass.”)


13 posted on 03/17/2012 11:11:36 AM PDT by tumblindice (our new, happy lives)
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To: Jack Hydrazine
arghhh... so it is!! *LOL* :-D
that fist-puppet (a-la-cartman...classic :-)

14 posted on 03/17/2012 11:23:09 AM PDT by skinkinthegrass (Simple: Kill the terrorists, Protect (all) the borders, ridicule all the (surviving) Liberals :^)
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To: SunkenCiv

bookmark


15 posted on 03/17/2012 11:25:53 AM PDT by GOP Poet
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To: JohnG45
I am sure it was because of the “luck of the Irish” he found you.

Thank you! I'd like to think it is the luck of the Irish! We sure had a lot of fun!

16 posted on 03/17/2012 11:41:42 AM PDT by Jaidyn
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To: SunkenCiv
Lá Fhéile Pádraig Shona le mo chairde ar saor in aisce poblacht !

¡ ɔıןqndǝɹ ǝǝɹɟ uo spuǝıɹɟ ʎɯ oʇ ʎɐp sʞɔıɹʇɐd ʇs ʎddɐɥ

17 posted on 03/17/2012 12:03:41 PM PDT by Squantos (Be polite. Be professional. But have a plan to kill everyone you meet)
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To: SunkenCiv

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.


18 posted on 03/17/2012 12:16:48 PM PDT by pineybill
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wouldn’t it be more proper to call it Gaelic? There is no “Irish” language. Irish Gaels maybe?


19 posted on 03/17/2012 12:47:13 PM PDT by Mmogamer (I refudiate the lamestream media, leftists and their prevaricutions.)
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To: SunkenCiv; a fool in paradise

IBIJ (In Before Irish Jokes!)


20 posted on 03/17/2012 12:52:12 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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