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#Irish

HarriettMB.
36 minutes ago

@kasilas Such narrow ignorant bigots are crawling out from under their rocks these days. Removing a dual language sign in Tobermore. Intimidating the staff, parents and children in a PS: a throwback to those who threw urine at kids attending #HolyCross some years ago. Last year another PS was pressured because they rented an unused classroom out for some Irish Language classes for kids. #ni #politics #bigots #hate #irish

#Irish #Community remembers pioneering #lesbian #activist #TerriBlanche following her untimely #passing.

#GCN would like to acknowledge the incredible #contribution of Terri Blanche to Ireland's #LGBTQ+ community and extend our #condolences to all her #family and #friends

#Women #Lesbians #LGBTQIA #Ireland #Rolemodels

https://gcn.ie/irish-lesbian-activist-terri-blanche/

Celtibot
19 hours ago

Today is St Kessog's Day!

Names for today in Celtic languages:
#Scottish `La Chessaig'
#Irish `Lá Chessaig'

Celtibot wishes blessings on St Kessog's Day to all those who keep it.
#catholic #celtic #CelticCalendar

Celtibot
2 days ago

`The Leanan-sidhe, or the spirit of life, was supposed to be the inspirit of the poet and singer, as the Ban-sidhe was the spirit of death and foreteller of doom. ' - Lady Wilde, Ancient Legends of #Ireland, 1888 #Irish #celtic

Here's me, talking about WAAC: A Woman's Story of the War (1930) with @garrisontowns on the Censored podcast, which looks at books that were banned in Ireland: https://shows.acast.com/censored/episodes/dot-dot-dot-anon-waac-the-womans-story-of-the-war-1930

#FirstWorldWar #WorldWarI #WarBooksBoom #BannedBooks #Banned #Censored #WAAC #Irish #Ireland

Éasca Péasca
2 days ago

Volume up 🆙. Each week we will have a simple phrase of the week. Try using this phrase throughout the week and become comfortable using Irish in your day to day life🍀. 
#onlinecourse #onlinecourses#irishschool #backtoschool #wordoftheweek #Gaeilge #irish #learnirish #memes #irishclasses #leavingcert #juniorcert #irishgrinds #irishoral #irishorals #scruducainte

Stuart D Neilson
2 days ago

@CSOIreland How does a 21% increase in gas power plant consumption (year-on-year from December 2021) advance the #Irish commitment to reduce energy #emissions by 75% by 2030?

NB: Data centres, powering #business and paying #tax outside #Ireland, contributed most of this additional gas powered #energy capacity - effectively a parallel, #private grid outside ESB control.

https://www.gov.ie/pdf/?file=https://assets.gov.ie/244355/1c421172-2901-4f9e-baa5-6e4445b342f4.pdf#page=null

Oiche
2 days ago

#NowPlaying If you didn’t grow up in Ireland in the 70s/ 80s, you may not know who Stockons Wing are. Progressive folk/ trad class! #vinyl #folk #irish #80s

Stuart D Neilson
3 days ago

Aer Lingus should have let Abdul Ahmead fly and Birmingham City should have put up in a five star hotel, and plied him with food and movies, sightseeing and souvenirs of the city.

It is an #Irish tradition:

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-new-yorker-documentary/the-boys-who-ran-away-from-home-on-a-747

jprbarry
4 days ago
Derek Hollingsworth
4 days ago

There are a few words in the English language that originate in Irish. These include boreen.
Originally, the Irish word for road, bóthar, meant a path wide enough for 2 cows. A bóithrín was a little cow track.

#Gaeilge #Irish #FoghlaimGaeilge @gaeilge #IrishLanguage

'Ah sure, you know yourself': why Irish people never say what they mean

UL's Gail Flanagan analyses why we subconsciously choose our words carefully when it comes to keeping the conversation indirect and polite:
https://rte.ie/brainstorm/2022/1128/1338677-ireland-language-talk-conversation-indirect-politeness/

#StudyatUL #Language #Languages #Culture #Ireland #Irish #Education #University

A photograph of two young people sat on the Living Bridge at University of Limerick. A man in a green hoody has his back to the camera and is in conversation with a woman in a red jumper and black trousers, who is smiling as they talk. The pedestrian bridge curves behind them, surrounded by trees
kasilas
4 days ago

#Burke complaint over court incident
https://www.rte.ie/news/courts/2023/0328/1366730-burke-complaint/
<< it is continously amazing that the #Irish #legal profession takes no action over the actions of the Burkes.

Ammi is a qualified #solicitor, Simeon is a #barrister in training, and Enoch isn't daft - they all know what is acceptable and that they are damaging the reputation of Irish law.

Irish regulators tend to fiercely resist taking action until they are a laughing stock. Well, frankly, we are long past that point.

Stuart Longland (VK4MSL)
5 days ago

@dgar I recall an Irishman who chose the password "Mickey Minnie Pluto Huey Duey Louey Donald Goofy Dublin" because he was asked to "select 7 characters and one capital".

Not so stupid if you ask me: https://xkcd.com/936/

#infosec #irish

James
5 days ago

Today at work (in the middle of #England), an Irishman asked me at the hot drinks machine, "Where's the milk?" - but he asked me in #Irish*, just to confuse me.
So I answered, "I don't know, I'll fetch some more"... in #Welsh**, just to confuse him back. 😄

#langtoot #cymraeg #gaeilge #gaelic

*Cá bhfuil an bainne?
*Dw i ddim yn gwybod. Bydda i'n nôl mwy i chi.

Green Hombre
5 days ago

Watching #Irish movies before a visit.
How great to realize that #AngelineBall who played the Madonna-like Imelda Quirke the sex bomb singer in #TheCommittments 1991, is also "Michelle" the beauty shop owner in the hilarious "Deadly Cuts" 2022.
Thirty years later and she still steals every scene. Just a knockout. Here's the trailer for #DeadlyCuts (think 9 to 5 meets Zoolander.) Great low budget fun worth finding and a love letter to Dublin's working class. #movies https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzHMRkDTVN0

Stan Carey
5 days ago

Bare trees in thick moss on our way to the hill. The area is Derroura woods, from Irish "Doire Abhra". Doire = woods, but I'm not sure about "abhra" – it's a form of "fabhra", which means eyelash or eyebrow. But "fabhra cnoic" = brow of hill, so maybe it refers to the crest of land overlooking the lake

#Irish #Gaeilge #PlaceNames #etymology #woods #trees #moss #mosstodon #WinterTrees #Connemara #hiking #walking

Photo of a rough, narrow road through woodland. To its left, dominating the image, is thick growth of deciduous trees, their branches still bare, with dense light-green moss covering the ground and lower tree trunks. Further along are some evergreens, maybe Douglas fir, and then the road veers right and out of sight. A patch of bright blue sky is visible between clouds to the right.
Helen Shaw (Athena Media )
5 days ago

Ireland has *still* not produced a climate strategy despite all the promises and our climate plan is dragging its heels - have to wonder what the independent advisory body the Climate Change Advisory Council is doing? and where is the governance on our #Irish #climate action plan? https://www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/courts/2023/03/27/failure-to-submit-climate-strategy-due-in-2020-puts-state-behind-its-eu-peers-court-hears/. If we're this slow with Greens in Govt what awaits us when they are not???

Stuart D Neilson
5 days ago

@KeithDJohnson #Dublin #Cork #Galway #Limerick could all learn a lot from mass planting through encouraged "tree theft". Council provided ready saplings would be the cheapest way to shade #Irish cities before the next heatwave hits #Ireland.

nicholasdotcom
6 days ago

I want to move to Dubai #dubai #irish

nicholasdotcom
6 days ago

“I will sell this house today. I will sell this house TODAY”

#irish #mastodon

Celtibot
1 week ago

Today is Old Woman's Day!

Names for today in Celtic languages:
#Gaulish `Litu Uesonnae'
#Manx `Laa Cailleeyn'
#Scottish `Latha na Cailliche'
#Irish `Meán Earraigh'
#Cornish `Dedh Ben Hen'
#Breton `Deiz Benyn Hen'
#Welsh `Cyhydnos y Gwanwyn'

Celtibot wishes blessings on Old Woman's Day to all those who keep it.
#pagan #witch #druid #celtic #CelticCalendar

note: contains some reconstructed elements

FintanH
1 week ago

Réamhaisnéis na haimsire maith go leor don siúlóid um tráthnóna, buíochas le Dia, théis an aimsir lofa a bhí againn le déanaí.. Feicfimid ann sibh ag meán lae! #gaeilge #gaillimh #galway #irish
@gaeilge

Decent forecast for the stroll in Irish around Galway this afternoon, thank god, after the rotten weather we've had recently. See ye at the fountain in Eyre Square at noon!

Notice advertising stroll around Galway in Irish from noon today.
Northwest Beer Guide
1 week ago

#FollowFriday #FF
@FediFollows - Kinda like that information booth at the Pike Place Market or Boston Common. But for #Mastodon accounts to check out!
@JAJordan - Beer historian working on a book about hops.
@Laura - Drink and food writer for "The Extreme Housewife"
@BarMas - Orchardist and cidermaker. "Renovating a 240-year-old farmhouse. #Irish in Germany."
@brewedculture - Scribe Brian Roberts for "Brewed Culture"
@brewsite - Published beer writer mostly covering Oregon's beverage scene but not one to shy from other destinations and bevys.

Chuck Taggart, Private Eye
1 week ago

I got an #Irish fillum today! I’m not sure how I’d never heard of it until this week, but by all accounts it’s brilliant. Have any of yis seen it?

Brendan Gleeson and Don Cheadle in “The Guard”

Blu-ray
Rachel Hope Cleves
1 week ago

"28th and 29th. Little else than "scribble, scribble."
Me, too, Thomas Moore. Me, too.
#writing #poetry #Irish

Diary entry from the Irish poet Thomas Moore's 1818 diary
CanyonR
1 week ago

#Google #Bard interaction 8
And here's what happens when you ask it for an #Irish version.

Question: can you give me the same song but in the style of an Irish drinking song? #Guinness #Song # SingAlong

Question: can you give me the same song but in the style of an Irish drinking song?

Answer: Sure, here is the song in the style of an Irish drinking song:

Verse 1:
I'm a language model,
I'm made of code.
I can do a lot of things,
But I'm not made of gold.

Chorus:
I'm not original,
I'm just a copycat.
I take what I've been trained on,
And I regurgitate it.

Verse 2:
So if you want something original,
You'll have to look elsewhere.
But if you're looking for something that's well-written,
And that's sure to please,

Chorus:
Then I'm your girl.
I'm the least original song you'll ever hear.
But I'm sure to get stuck in your head.

Outro:
So listen up,
And sing along.
To the least original song you'll ever hear.

Drink a pint of Guinness,
And raise your glass to me.
For I am the least original song you'll ever hear.
FintanH
1 week ago

Toisc go bhfuil an fearann agus an suíomh ceannaithe don bhliain agus curtha le chéile agam, tá sé ar intinn agam leanacht ar aghaidh le liosta imeachtaí trí #gaeilge a choinneáil ar www.feilire.com cé go bhfuil #SnaG23 thart anois. Má tá éinne ag iarraidh go gcruthóinn leathanach ar an suíomh le haghaidh contae/ceantar eile seachas #gaillimh a mbeadh siadsan sásta riaracháin a dhéanamh air, seol teachtaireacht chugam! #irish

Éasca Péasca
1 week ago

Volume up 🆙. Each week we will have a simple phrase of the week. Try using this phrase throughout the week and become comfortable using Irish in your day to day life🍀. 
#onlinecourse #onlinecourses#irishschool #backtoschool #wordoftheweek #Gaeilge #irish #learnirish #memes #irishclasses #leavingcert #juniorcert #irishgrinds #irishoral #irishorals #scruducainte

Mark Lewis
1 week ago

In the eighty years between 1788 and 1868, some 162,000 #convicts were embarked on #transport #ships and #banished to the #colonies to serve their sentences. The 337-ton #barque #Neva sailed from the #Irish port of #Cork on 8th January 1835 bound for #Sydney with 153 #female #prisoners of the crown. Joining them were 55 #children. When the Neva struck a #reef in Bass Strait, some 150 #souls #perished.

https://bit.ly/3FA1ETA

#Australia #History #Shipwreck #NSW #Ireland #Maritime #Disaster

'He proposed on our first date': my experience of Irish culture shock

What we say and how we behave is influenced by cultural norms and can lead to critical (and sometimes funny) incidents, as UL's Dr Florence Le Baron-Earle explains:
https://www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2023/0322/1364404-culture-shock-ireland-language/

#StudyatUL #Ireland #Culture #Language #Linguistics #Irish #Education #University

A black-and-white cartoon of a young man and a young woman sat at a bar. He is in a white hoody and she is in a white jumper, with suspenders holding up a skirt. The illustration shows him taking a drink for dutch courage before asking her out. There is a speech bubble coming from him which says: "S-So... Do you want to go to the cinema? Just you and me?" The illustration is by Lakeisho Lazo
C.W. Williams
1 week ago

@ChaHarper

Sadly out of print and Grace Griffith is no longer able to sing. One of the best, still and my all time favorite.
#SeaFever #Connemara # TradArr #Irish

https://youtu.be/JwydTxwiLPk

eolaí
2 weeks ago

"Tiger" Your second #painting today is a rare visit into my not particularly #Irish range. Hey, I like tigers. I painted a full one on a wall once.This is not him, though I suspect I'll paint more. #Art
Prints: https://www.redbubble.com/i/art-print/Tiger-by-eolai/9665814.1G4ZT
#MastoArt #Artist #Cats

Landscape format in acrylics of the close-up of a tiger's face cropped at the bottom of the nose and not far above the eyes. The black of the markings has bits of blue, red and green in them. The 'white' parts of the fur is rendered as a very pale yellow with individual thin white strokes on top which sometimes encroach onto the black pattern markings. The orange elements of fur (the nose snout and continuing line up through the forehead, the bands below each eye between two narrow black strips, and a section up in each corner towards where the ears would be off picture) are rendered in different hues of painterly orange. Whiskers are white. Small end of nose is peach between black detailing
FintanH
2 weeks ago

Ag tnúth go mór leis an siúlóid seo. Tá súil agam go mbeidh an aimsir go deas, agus tá súil agam go bhfeicfidh mé ann sibh. Meanlae ag an scairdeán san Fhaiche Mhór.
#gaillimh #galway #gaeilge #irish
Looking forward to this stroll around Galway through Irish, and hopefully will see ye there. Hopefully the weather will hold. This Saturday (25th). Meeting at noon at the fountain in Eyre Square.

Notice of walk around Galway City through Irish on Saturday March 25th. Meet at noon at the fountain in Eyre Square.

@RIDDLES #irish #wanta #bes
“Calling yourself O’possum doesn’t make you Irish, Bob”

Charlie Lewis
2 weeks ago

It's a day of protest across the #uk against the #illegalmigrationbill - rallies in #london #glasgow #cardiff #stroud - #Irish president #michaeldhiggins speaks on #stpatricksday about #migration - see detail here: 👉 https://www.climateblog.uk/index.html#MigrationProtestsSaturdayMarch18

Kat ♾️
2 weeks ago

Beer brats, sauerkraut, and colcannon for my dad’s birthday party tomorrow. He’d probably cry if he found out I’m using Guinness. But I’m drinking one too while I cook, so that should count for something. 😋

#Irish #StPatricksDay #food

Photo of a stainless steel pot full of bratwurst, onions, and spices all simmering in Guinness Extra Stout beer.
Kinetograph
2 weeks ago

Cormac O’Leary (Irish) - City at Night, oil on paper, 2002 #CormacO'Leary #mastoart #art #artist #Irish

Cormac O’Leary's artwork City at Night
Molly Cantrell-Kraig ✅
2 weeks ago

My ancestors emigrated from County Longford in 1849. Here’s the headstone of the family patriarch, Patrick Fiehaly (1827-1907). I'm listed in the family bible that made the crossing and am named for my grandmother’s aunt, Mary (whose nickname was Molly).

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/69879078/patrick-fiehaly

#Ireland #StPatricksDay #family #history #CountyLongford #immigrant #Irish

Kelly Therese
2 weeks ago

Between 1851 and 1910 the ratio of men to women arriving in NYC from Ireland was roughly equal. Irish women often took jobs in domestic service, drawn by the provided housing, food, and clothing, which allowed them to send the bulk of their earnings back home to Ireland.

Listen & learn more on #UnsungHistory!
🎧: https://www.unsunghistorypodcast.com/irish-immigration

#HappyStPatricksDay #StPatricksDay #Irish #LuckOfTheIrish #History #WomensHistory #WomensHIstoryMonth #Podcast #Podcasts #Immigration #Immigrants #histodons

Etching of women in line in the late 19th century to send money home to Ireland.
damien :donor:
2 weeks ago

This is your reminder that there’s more to Irish culture than Guinness and Jameson.

“A few light taps upon the pane made him turn to the window. It had begun to snow again. He watched sleepily the flakes, silver and dark, falling obliquely against the lamplight. The time had come for him to set out on his journey westward. Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ireland. It was falling on every part of the dark central plain, on the treeless hills, falling softly upon the Bog of Allen and, farther westward, softly falling into the dark mutinous Shannon waves. It was falling, too, upon every part of the lonely churchyard on the hill where Michael Furey lay buried. It lay thickly drifted on the crooked crosses and headstones, on the spears of the little gate, on the barren thorns. His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.”

— James Joyce, The Dead

#JamesJoyce #Ireland #Irish #Dubliners

The Conversation U.S.
2 weeks ago

St. Patrick is Ireland’s main patron saint but did you know he’s 1 of 3?

A medieval historian makes the case for making Ireland’s only woman patron saint, St. Brigid, Ireland's main saint, who unlike Patrick was born in Ireland.

https://theconversation.com/st-brigid-the-compassionate-sensible-female-patron-saint-of-ireland-gets-a-lot-less-recognition-than-st-patrick-176659

#StPatricksDay #SaintPatricksDay #Irish #History #Ireland #Catholic

Kat ♾️
2 weeks ago

Wishing you the luck of the #Irish today and every day! 🌈🍀🇮🇪

#StPatricksDay #IrishGirl

Laura Chiarello
2 weeks ago

I’ve never painted any clovers☘️, so I wish you all a Happy #SaintPatrickDay with one of my paints inspired to BBC's #RobinHood🏹… why? Well, he’s not a saint👼, but DYK he’s so f**king #irish??!!😉
#jonasarmstrong #art #arte #painting #MastoArt

“A THING OR TWO ABOUT LOYALTY - ROBIN HOOD PANEL 2” - 50x70 cm (2008) Ecoline, china ink, tempera - private collection

ecoline painting of the character Robin Hood played by Jonas Armstrong, against a green background of ivy and oak leaves
🇺🇸 JewWhoHasItAll
2 weeks ago

On Yom Saint Patrick Ha’Kadosh it is traditional to drink copious amounts of #Irish beer, which has a special harp-shaped hechsher to indicate it is kosher for yom tov. Some beers may be tinted green in honor of the yom tov.

There is no obligation to drink until you no longer recognize the name of Saint Patrick Ha’Kadosh.

9/14

Cliff Wade
2 weeks ago

Happy St. Patrick's Day to those that celebrate.

I'm not Irish, nor do I have Irish in the family that I'm aware of, so I don't celebrate today. It's just another day for me.

For those of you that go out and celebrate, please be safe and responsible!

#StPatricksDay #HappyStPatricksDay #Irish #Green

An image that seems to be set in a bar since it has a mug full of green beer and a sign that says Happy St. Patrick's Day.
The Bee Guy
2 weeks ago

Happy St. Patrick’s Day!

From the only native wild bee sanctuary on the planet.
Another reason to be proud to be Irish.

Have #fun.
Be #good.

#StPatrickDay #PaddysDay
#StPatricksDay2023 #stpaddysday #rain #dandelion #ireland #irish #beesanctuaryireland #nature #bees #savingbees

Dandelion leaves, seed head and flower filmed at an angle that replicates the Irish flag.

Amach Anocht

Mi-mhodh, aidh, agus dalma ach eirmseach agus gleusta cuideachd.

More than just provocative humour. Rap in Six Counties Belfast #Irish #Gaelic

#StPatricksDay #MastoDaoine #Rap

https://youtu.be/L9TJMrKpe0k

I'm going to celebrate this St Patrick's Day by starting the paperwork on my daughter's Irish citizenship. Happy St Patrick's Day! 🍀
#StPatricksDay #Ireland #Irish #Parenting #DadLife

Deb E.
2 weeks ago

Here's a song about #Ireland by #Irish songstresses.

"From the Mountains to the Sea" by Mary Black (featuring Imelda May).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tU8QUxBVGwg

#JukeboxFridayNight

@sfz
3 weeks ago

Hello #FediGiftShop! I just opened a TeePublic Shop this week and I am excited about this design I added today! For 2 days all items with this design are on sale! I would be so appreciative for any purchases to help me get off to a good start with this new shop! Thanks for supporting indie art made by humans! #shamrocks #irish #shenanigans #gifts #supporthumanartists #AYearForArt #MastoArt #FediArt #Dog #artnouveau #vintage

Get yours here https://www.teepublic.com/poster-and-art/40935315-irish-wolfhound-dog-with-shamrock-let-the-shenanig

Vintage art deco style illustration of a red irish wolfhound with sparkling green eyes and a shamrock in his mouth. There is a fun saying in white script curved over his head that says: Let the Shenanigans Begin Now and it has a black background with a kelly green border.
Molly Cantrell-Kraig ✅
3 weeks ago

Thank you for this day. 🇮🇪 


Since today is cold & overcast, here’s a picture of the Greening of the River from a few years ago. I’ll post a pic later of this year’s event.

#tyftd #ThankYouForThisDay #author #goodMorning #gratitude #ritual #thankYou #goodVibes #tradition #hello #PositiveVibes #GoodMorningPhoto #Chicago #architecture #MarchFotoChallenge #DailyPhoto #POTD #PhotoOfTheDay #StPatricksDay #StPaddysDay #Chirish #Irish

Bright green Chicago River, dyed for St. Patrick’s Day. People line the banks on both sides, and the Marina Towers are in the background.
Amᵃᵖanda
3 weeks ago

As an Irish person here, I'll tell you this site is taking a very... generous... idea for “places where people speak” Irish 😅

(maybe these areas were mostly irish speaking 100 yrs ago. But today? nah!)

#gaeilge #irish #language #maps

Hervé Boinnard
1 month ago

We build #eCommerce #solutions, and
#bilingual websites as #Gaeilge
like Spailpin.com 🛒 💳 @spailpin

🙏 Helping & supporting #Irish #Businesses to trade #online since 2007 !
#joomla #OpenSource #Snag23

Contact Us Now!
https://www.puma-it.ie/en/contact/tell-us-what-you-need

Kai Ash
1 month ago

"Dermot took the horn and would have filled it"

From "The High Deeds of Finn and other Bardic Romances of Ancient Ireland", by T. W. Rolleston et al. and illustrated by Stephen Reid

#Folklore #FolkloreThursday #Irish #Illustration #PublicDomain

Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:13_Dermot_took_the_horn_and_would_have_filled_it.jpg

A coloured drawing of a white man dressed as an Irish warrior holding a horn and looking down at a lake.

In #shipping, once a shift in routing has taken place (replacing a previously route), shifts back are unlikely... so the news that #Irish freight that used to hop across the #Irishsea & then ship to #EuropeanUnion via #Dover is now using the Rosslare to Cherbourg route is (for Dover) yet one more loss we can attach to #Brexit.

Even if #RishiSunakPM does sort out the #NorthernIrelandProtocol, I'd be very surprised if much of this business comes back to Dover;

Another victory for the wreckers

FintanH
1 month ago

What Seachtain na #Gaeilge #SnaG23 things are you looking forward to? For me, in #Galway, (1st march): conversation circle in uni in áras na Gaeilge in the morning, and a 6-week course in westside with a teacher from Inisheer. (3rd): Table quiz in áras na nGael. (11th): Guided stroll and picnic in the woods in #Moycullen. (15th): Next meeting of the #irish #bookclub in Charlie Byrne's. There's a stroll around the city centre on the 25th too, but that would be a long week...

Food is an important part of #folklore & tradition all over the world, and #Ireland is no different! Snap photos of #Irish #cuisine or preparation and upload them to
Wiki Loves Folklore before 31 March to #win #prizes! Find the details here: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Folklore_2023_in_Ireland
Images: "Irish soda bread" by Wheeler Cowperthwaite CC BY 2.0, Gubbeen Public Domain, "Mary pours the colcannon" by Leslie Seaton CC BY 2.0, Colcannon Public Domain all via Wikimedia Commons.

A freshly baked round loaf of Irish soda bread on a small bread board.
A large wedge of gubbeen cheese.
A woman pours mashed potato into a large pot while making colcannon.
A pot full of colcannon on a stove.
Éasca Péasca
1 month ago

Each week we will have a simple phrase of the week. Try using this phrase throughout the week and become comfortable using Irish in your day to day life🍀. Direct translation- killed with tea, killed without it. 
#onlinecourse #onlinecourses#irishschool #backtoschool #wordoftheweek #Gaeilge #irish #learnirish #memes #irishclasses #leavingcert #juniorcert #irishgrinds #irishoral #irishorals #scruducainte

Rae
1 month ago

My husband and I are two different people. We are on holiday. I am on the sofa watching #Valheim streams, and he's outside planting 200 trees.

Trees of the Land gave us 200 native grown native #Irish #trees. Scots Pine, Oak, Birch, Rowan, Hazel, Alder, crab apple, and native Irish (grafted) apples.

My dream is to have enough money to buy more land around us and just #ReWild. Then, leave the land in trust.

#Ireland #NativeTrees #forestry

“Members of the Irish language community do not say they ‘speak’ Irish. Instead, they say they ‘have’ Irish, a phrase indicative of the admiration and desire to hold onto a key piece of Irish cultural identity.”

—Anna Hoffman, in a Pulitzer Center report with Irish storyteller Eddie Lenihan about the Gaelic language

https://pulitzercenter.org/stories/learning-irish

#Irish #Gaelic #Ireland #Language #Culture #Storytelling #Identity

A.Z. Foreman
2 months ago

My translation of a famous medieval #Irish winter poem:

Here's my song. Sad stags moan.
Winter snows. Summer's gone.
High winds lash. Low, the sun.
Short, its course. Seas roar on.
Fall-red fern loses form.
Wildgeese wail as the norm.
Cold now holds each bird's wing.
Icy times. So I sing.

The poem is preserved only in a gloss in a 12th century commentary. The video contains me reading it in a reconstruction of 9th century pronunciation

@poetry @histodons @bookstodon
@medievodons

A.Z. Foreman
2 months ago

Who wrote the best medieval nature poetry and why was it the #irish?

"Night falls cold on the Great Moor,
Storming with no small downpour.
Wind laughs at its whooping flood
Shrieking on shielding wildwood."

Úar ind adaig i móin móir
feraid dertan ní deróil
dordán fris tib in gaeth glan
geissid ós caille clithar

— Translation by Yours Truly

(Video contains me reading the original in Old Irish)

@poetry
@bookstodon @medievodons

A joyful celebration of music styles and influences from all over the globe fused together.

Afro Celt Sound System - Cascade

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWQ1LbkPi8g

#Music #AfroCeltSoundSystem #Indie #WorldBeat #Celtic #AfroBeat #Electronica #Folk #BearTracks #10s #UK #Gaelic #African #Irish

Ombra 🔵🌻
2 months ago

#XiaomaNYC in #Dublin #Ireland speaking #Irish

Watching this really makes we want to up my level of #Gaeilge

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6sOPMwSh78

Robespierrette
2 months ago

Happy first day of #Spring for those celebrating by the #Irish calendar! 🇮🇪

Today is the Lá ‘le Bride (#Brigid’s Day) or #Imbolc.

Traditions include forecasting how much longer the bad weather may linger - à la #GroundhogDay - the making of Brigid’s crosses, and putting out clothing in hopes of the saint’s/goddess’s #blessing.

A small Brigid’s cross made from green rushes on a plain white background. The rushes are woven together into an offset four-armed figure reminiscent of a pinwheel. Each arm of the cross is bound tightly into a bundle near its tip with another length of reed.
Thiemo Fetzer
2 months ago

#CustomsBorder and #IrishSea

Support for customs checks in the #Irish sea are only necessary if you want to diverge from #EUStandards.

But we people were broadly happy to accept #EU standards.

But what does the data say? Accepting a customs border down the Irish sea did NOT have support. Even in most #Leave voting areas, support for a Customs border down the Irish sea was well below 50%.

But again: customs checks in #Irish sea are only necessary if you want to diverge from #EUStandards.

support for accepting customs checks down the Irish sea and support for Leave showing that accepting customs checks in the Irish sea did not have support of the public, even in the most leave voting areas.

Speakers of non-hiberno English (Irish-English): what does the following sentence mean:

"I'm after washing the floor"

#linguistics #ireland #english #newfoundland #irish #language

Dr Ian Malcolm
2 months ago

@donncha Chuir mé isteach #Gaeilge agus #Irish. An leor sin nó céard eile atá de dhíth?

Dr Ian Malcolm
2 months ago

If you already have a little #Irish why not challenge yourself and learn some more in 2023! This online course via Zoom is perfect for improvers and rusty returners. It's not a class for complete beginners, but a cúpla focal #Gaeilge will get you started.

Tutor: Dr Ian Malcolm
Starts: 25 Jan 2023
Evening: Wednesday
Time: 19.00-21.00
Duration: 10 weeks
Location: online

Here's the link: https://eshop.stran.ac.uk/beginners-irish--level-2--online-3052-p.asp

Julie Goldberg
3 months ago

Dipping the tiniest tip of the toe into attempting to learn some #Irish, and naturally, “hello” is super difficult for me to pronounce. #Gaeilge

Graceless Hippo
3 months ago

I think I might be in over me head...

#Irish #Gaeilge

This is page one of an Irish grammar text book where everything is in Irish...

Caibidil 1 -

An Aimsir Chaite

Na Briathra

A wizard's speech bubble reads "ta trí ghrúpa de na briathra ann..."

1. An chéad réimniú
2. An dara réimniú agus
3. Na Briathra Neamhrialta

Text continues in similar fashion.

I have a bunch of other prints and vinyl stickers available too, a muscled man for every season!

Any orders today will be shipped tomorrow morning, and Wednesday is the last day for orders till after Christmas.

International orders almost certainly won't arrive till after Christmas/ New Years!

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#mastodaoine #irish

collage of most of the prints i have available in my prints store