#Irish

#onlinecourses #irishschool #backtoschool #wordoftheweek #Gaeilge #irish #learnirish #memes #irishclasses #leavingcert #juniorcert #irishgrinds #irishoral #irishorals #scruducainte

Pronunciation is important 😂

Celtibot

`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

Ireland Inside and Out

https://youtu.be/_UChAWIL1YE
#Ireland #irish #IrishHistory #medieval #castles #medievalIreland #Louth #Carlingford

Andrew Frayn

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

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

Éasca Péasca

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

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

@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.

Oiche

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

#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:

jprbarry

Today at the Irish Embassy in #Colombia. #Irish #Embassy #IrishEmbassy #Bogota #SouthAmerica #travel #Ireland #IrishEmbassyColombia @IrelandColombia

Derek Hollingsworth

#Gaeilge #Irish #FoghlaimGaeilge @gaeilge #IrishLanguage

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.

University of Limerick

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

'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/

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

#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)

@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

#langtoot #cymraeg #gaeilge #gaelic

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. 😄

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

Green Hombre

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

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

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

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 )

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

@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

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

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

#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.

jaz 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

I hear a lot of folks asking about #sports news, here's a few accounts for #DyddDilyn #FollowFriday #FF

⚽ @wxmafc live #WrexhamAFC coverage for #MastodonFC
🏈 @mikerothstein #AtlantaFalcons #NFL
⚾ @leviweaver #TexasRangers
🏒 @TheHockeyWriters #NHL #Hockey
🏀 @hoopfeed #womensbasketball
🎱 @snookerbot #snooker results
🏉 @RugbyKino #Irish #Rugby
🏏 @_hypocaust #Cricket
🏒 @bostonbruinsgameday #BostonBruins

#Arsenal fan? They have their own server: https://arsenalfc.social/

Add yours below!

Ireland Inside and Out

https://youtu.be/fd8OWmLUOmc
#Ireland #IrishHistory #SpanishArmada #Irish #history #spain #england #sligo #antrium #WildAtlanticWay

Chuck Taggart, Private Eye

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

"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

#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

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

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

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

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

University of Limerick

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

'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/

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