#irish
#Odras was the wife of a cattle lord. She refused to let one of her cows mate with the bull of the #Mórrígan. The goddess took the cows of Odras who followed her into the Cave of Crúachain/#Oweynagat before falling under an enchanted sleep. Upon awakening the milkmaid saw the Morrígan who whispered a spell over her, turning Odras into the River Odras, which in Modern #Irish must correspond to today’s River Boyle (an Bhúill in Irish).
#Celtic
Source: https://hal.science/hal-03275671/document
„There were once three werewolves that in their human shape had been the three daughters of the 'Lord of the White Fort'. They had been seen coming out of a cave at the shore and were causing a great deal of destruction in the district, and so #Cascarach, who had the gift of charming, was called upon. While the #elven harper sat at the opening of the cave, luring the werewolves with his enchanted playing, Caoilte lay in wait, his magical spear in hand.
#Cascarach wove a spell that was soothing, calming, lulling the wolves to come forward. As they did so, #Cascarach mocked them for being in wolf shape, saying that they would surely appreciate the full beauty of his music in their own human form. The werewolves agreed, by this time spellbound by the delightful music, and they shed their wolfskins. In that moment #Caoilte acted, throwing his spear through the heart of all three, and thus they were slain.” From the #Irish folk tale 'The Wolf Maids' #Celtic
https://twitter.com/unrealpod/status/1184789203093196801
Source: http://socrates.freeshell.org/Animals.html
Today in Labor History June 7, 1866: 1,800 Fenian raiders were forced back to the U.S. after looting and plundering the Saint-Armand and Frelighsburg areas in Canada. The Fenian raiders were members of the Fenian Brotherhood (Irish Republican Brotherhood), a U.S.-based Irish Republican organization that attacked British installations in Canada. Their goal was Irish independence from the UK. They carried out raids in 1866, as well as 1870-1871. The IRB also took part in the ill-fated Fenian Rising, in Ireland, in 1867.
#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #irish #independence #ireland #republican #colonialism #IRB #canada #british
„In #Irish #mythology, the #Otherworld islands, said to be #Manannán’s home, lie ‘beyond the ninth wave’. The ninth wave is said to be greater than any other wave before it, and is also known as the ‘Wave of Transformation’.
The Tuatha de Danann attempted to protect #Ireland from the attack of the invading Milesians by shrouding the land in fog and storms. They ordered the Milesians to go back beyond the ninth wave but the poet #Amergin countered the Danann magic, and breached the spell; supposedly, it was the ninth wave itself which broke through.
The Imramma is a sacred sea voyage in Irish mythology which takes the traveller beyond the ninth wave in search of the magical Otherworld and the Gods which inhabit it. In this way, we can see that the voyage is more a spiritual journey than a physical one, the wave of transformation perhaps bringing with it the wisdom and knowledge we all ultimately seek.“
Source: Ali Isaac
I don't understand #Finnish, but I experience #Korrpiklaani basically as #Irish Drinking songs if Irish drinking songs were Finnish and metal?
"When we look at the #Irish terms for supernatural verbal power, we are stunned by their variety. To name just a few instances: aidmilled, airbe druad, amainse, ammaitecht, bluga, bricht, cerd cumainn, cerd ngenntlichtae, comal, corrguinecht, cumachtae, díchetal, doilbe, dolbaid, druídecht, elada, éle, eólas, epaid, faisdinecht, féth, felmas, and so on (see http://www.dil.ie/ for translations).“
Source: Jacqueline Borsje (`#Celtic Spells And Counterspells`)
![Joseph Martin Kronheim (1810–96)[1], Pictures of English History Plate I - Druids, or British Priests, public domain.jpg](https://s3.eu-central-2.wasabisys.com/mastodonworld/cache/media_attachments/files/110/502/822/243/901/292/small/800d19d5ef5e12de.jpg)
When a picture of the sunset through the grass turns out kinda cool #irish #ireland #photography #Pixel7Pro #sunset
Medieval (Scottish) Gaelic literature: the case of Finn mac Cumaill
Video of a talk given by Dr Geraldine Parsons on 23 May 2023
Introducing the corpus of #medieval works centred on the legendary hero Finn mac Cumaill. The earliest texts are #Irish – yet, outwith the #Gaelic tradition, Finn is often seen as a #Scottish literary creation, not least because of James Macpherson’s imagining of him as Fingal in the #18thcentury
#literature #CelticStudies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_rPUdkDTxw
Another comedy Northern Irish family moment.
On a video call with my mum in Belfast I told her that, even though we live in London, my two year-old son has picked up a Northern Irish accent from me.
She asked for an example.
I said "well he just 'daddy lie down!' "
She said "what's Northern Irish about that?"
I said "well I just said it in my accent, which is Northern Irish, in case you'd forgotten"
#Irish #law question. I keep seeing places implying personal flotation devices are legally required on #SUP and Kayaks in Ireland e.g. Decathlon.
Whilst this is super sensible, I can't see a #legal requirement anywhere.
I know about the personal watercraft requirement from SI 921/2005 - Pleasure Craft Regulations 2005, but SI 349/2012 - Pleasure Craft Regulations 2012 explains this relates to engines (it is focusing on jet skis). #sea
@jess Do y'all serve #SausageRolls or #ScotchEggs?
Asking for someone across the pond...who has been spoiled ROTTEN by the #UK and #Irish pavilions at #Epcot! 😂
@Cbfoley I've just remembered about those books you recommended by Manchán Magan, so I've bought Thirty Two Words for Field. I had a discount code I had to use anyway. One more book won't hurt, right? 😂📚 #Irish #Bookstodon #Nature #Language
#TheGuardian : "#Irish town unites in #smartphone #ban for young #children"
"Parents and schools across Greystones adopt voluntary ‘#noSmartphone #code [of conduct]’ in bid to curb peer pressure", in a "rare example of an entire town taking joint action." "Not all parents will deny their primary schoolchildren a smartphone – the code is voluntary – but enough have signed up to create a…critical mass"
Brilliant #collective action!
My bio sums it up pretty well. I’m Dylan, Irish software dev, based in Galway. #Irish #softwaredeveloper #Galway
I’ll talk work sometimes but not too often.
I’m a big fan of #F1 so expect posts about that (I’m also a #ferrari fan so don’t expect much joy 😅)
Also love all kinds of games. Video games #TotK #spiderman2ps5 #spiderman2 #pcgaming , board games, card games #mtg and #pokemontcg, and tabletop RPGs. #dnd #pathfinder #genesysrpg
Happy to be here! #introduction
New paper published today, as part of the Representations of #Colonial #Landscapes in #Irish #tourist #Attractions research:
'The Irish Colonial Landscape Digital #StoryMap: an inclusive didactic tool'
http://www.j-reading.org/index.php/geography/article/view/368
Fresh from the press of #Irish #Tech #News is my #Dublin #Tech #Summit review after covering the successful 2-day event. Had quality chats with the likes of the #IT #Ukraine Association, #redhat, Kaseya, ThreatLocker, MODE, Oleksandr Storokha from ITERA, and more including my Irish Tech News colleagues Ronan Leonard and Melanie Boylan. Check out this #quality #tech #event at https://irishtechnews.ie/dublin-tech-summit-reviewed/
#Agriculture accounted for almost 40% of greenhouse gas emissions in 2020
https://www.thejournal.ie/agriculture-greenhouse-gas-emissions-2020-6082282-May2023/
<< an industry that the #Irish government is simply afraid to tackle. So, in 7 years time, everyone will be hit by massive emission fines.
This is utter madness.
Colm McGuinness - Strangers Like Me - Disney's Tarzan (IRISH FOLK Cover) - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jj0fqv7puQc
A #Tigh nAlluis is an early #Irish sweat-house. They look like little stone #beehives with a low doorway, and can still be seen dotted around the landscape today, although their true purpose is one of debate. A fire would be lit inside, in which stones were heated. The ashes would be scraped out, and water sprinkled onto the stones to produce a heavy vapour.
Souce: Ali Isaac
#Celtic #FolkloreThursday: Brân Vendigeit 'the Blessed' had taken a cauldron from a pair of #Irish demons, which they had brought from the #Otherworld. If one lit a fire under it and filled it in the evening with the corpses of the slain, they were revived the next morning, only that they lacked the ability to speak.
Source: Helmut Birkhan `Die #Kelten`
The Irish Rovers - The Unicorn
https://youtu.be/mN-uA9CiV_w
Can Will and Isobel rally everyone around and confront an epidemic?
A Pleasant Distraction: The Fitzgeralds of Dublin Book Eight is OUT NOW!
Amazon - https://mybook.to/apleasantdistraction
#BookSeries #HistoricalFiction #Irish #Victorian #Bookstodon #HistoricalSaga #IrishFiction #IrishBooks #BooksSetInIreland #VictorianSaga #Dublin #Ireland #19thCentury #Saga #APleasantDistractionByLornaPeel #NewRelease #TheFitzgeraldsOfDublinSeries #BooksByLornaPeel
"But even among hardened #GDPR warriors, the real extent of the #Data Protection Commissioner's uselessness is genuinely shocking. A new report from the #Irish Council for Civil Liberties reveals that the #DPC isn't merely tolerant of privacy crimes, they're gamekeepers turned poachers, active collaborators in privacy abuse"
https://pluralistic.net/2023/05/15/finnegans-snooze/#dirty-old-town
Final day of Dublin Tech Summit and my coverage of it for #irish #tech #news … stay tuned for updates and my coverage article at https://irishtechnews.ie
Weltzeit - Deutschlandfunk Kultur: Revival der irischen Sprache - Emanzipation von englischer Herrschaft #Irland #Gaelic #Irish #Irisch #Sprache
Webseite der Episode: https://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/revival-der-irischen-sprache-emanzipation-von-englischer-herrschaft-dlf-kultur-09073cd9-100.html
„Saint Colman was the son of an #Irish chieftain, Duagh, in the late 5th/ early 6th centuries AD. He became a priest, and according to legend, he kept three rather unusual pets: a rooster to wake him for prayers in the morning, a mouse to wake him for prayers during the night, and a fly to act as a sort of book mark and keep his place when he was called away from reading his prayer book.
Unfortunately, a fly’s life is short, and Saint Colman was devastated when his faithful little friend passed. He wrote to Saint Columba expressing his grief, to which Columba replied, “You were too rich when you had them. That is why you are sad now. Trouble like that only comes where there are riches. Be rich no more.” That was how Colman learned that one can be rich even without wealth.“
Source: Ali Isaac
`In #Irish #mythology, many characters had particular animals they were associated with. Ulster’s hero, #CúChulainn, had two special horses which pulled his chariot. Their names were Liath Macha, meaning the ‘grey of Macha’, and Dub Sainglend, the ‘black of Saingliu’. They were said to have emerged from the pool of Linn Liaith in the mountains of Sliabh Fuaid as a gift from the goddess, #Macha. This association with water clearly indicates their Otherworldly origin. Cuchulainn leaped onto their backs and rode them around the whole of Ireland in just one day, after which they were tamed.`
Source: Ali Isaac #Celtic
Níl a fhios agam an féidir cúpla mar "siar agus aniar" a úsáid sa chás seo, ach b'fhéidir rud éigin mar seo:
Tuigtear an saol chun deiridh, ach caithfear é a mhaireachtáil chun tosaigh.
A phobail Ghaeilge: Cabhraigh liom LBdT! Táim ag iarraidh ráiteas Danmhairgise, ón bhfealsúnaí Søren Kirkegaard, a aistriú go #Gaeilge:
«Livet forstås baglæns, men må leves forlæns.»
Nó as Béarla: "Life is understood backwards, but must be lived forwards."
Éinne? #translation #danish #Irish #mastodaoine
The operation on my #hurly was a great success. Helped me score 7 points today. If you want to see the before photos, see my post below.
"If you've any
ambition,
lose it early."
—Adrian Rice, Hickory Station
http://www.press53.com/bioAdrianRice.html
Aintin in Irish is not like the English aunty https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_kinship#:~:text=Irish%20kinship%20is%20a%20system,the%20Gaeltacht%20regions%20of%20Ireland. #gaeilge #irish
Rhasidat Adeleke tore another lump of the #Irish 400m record yesterday in California. At 20, she is now unquestionably one of the world’s best in the single race.
No doubt more is to come as the season ultimately progresses to the August World #TrackAndField Championships championships in Budapest
Ciara Mageean follows up her outstanding 2022 season with an #Irish record for the 800m
#GlobalIrishNation #IrishSports #TrackAndField #Athletics #WomenInSports
https://www.irishexaminer.com/sport/othersport/arid-41149354.html
The #Irish know how to deliver a curse!
Náire agus aithis chugat: That you may be shamed and disgraced. Pretty much covers it for me.
Johnson is very close to Cromwell in my opinion!
I may be on holidays; I just arrived in Lanzarote this morning! But I have another awesome thing to share! I was kindly interviewed by We Are Irish on being an illustrator with MPS/fibromyalgia! Do check it out 😊
https://weareirish.ie/art/hayley-mulcahy-illustration-fibromyalgia/
#MastoDaoine #IrishMastodon #WeAreIrish #Cork #Ireland #Irish #artist #illustrator #F1
Fastnet #Lighthouse - Known as the teardrop of #Ireland apparently because it was the last thing seen by immigrants leaving by boat. Prints here: https://mark-tisdale.pixels.com/featured/fastnet-rock-irish-lighthouse-mark-tisdale.html?product=art-print
#DigitalArt #Painting #Irish #night #MastoArt #CreativeToots #ArtMatters #MarkOnArt
increasing coverage of #Irish/#Gaeilge names for rivers in Ireland too!
Thanks Logainm.ie! 🙏
Caught swaggering home from the pub in the early hours of the morning...
Sláinte! 🐾
#Saturday #Caturday #CatsOfMastodon #Cat #Cats #Photo #Photography #Ireland #Irish #Pub
#WestRoxbury market that specializes in #Irish foods seeks to add beer, wine
#Boston #licensing https://www.universalhub.com/2023/west-roxbury-market-specializes-irish-foods-seeks
Medieval (Scottish) Gaelic literature: the case of Finn mac Cumaill
23 May, 5–6:30pm BST (6–7:30 CET), free online
Introducing the corpus of #medieval works centred on the legendary hero Finn mac Cumaill. The earliest texts are #Irish – yet, outwith the #Gaelic tradition, Finn is often seen as a #Scottish literary creation, not least because of James Macpherson’s imagining of him as Fingal in the #18thcentury
#literature #CelticStudies
@litstudies https://www.scotland.uni-mainz.de/reading-scotland/
yo #Irish #celtic folks: is this accurate? https://www.crowsbone.com/blogarchive/a-guide-to-samhain-exploring-the-customs-amp-origins-of-samhain
I'm not Celtic, but my kids are so I like to write fiction that sorta combines my heritage and theirs ysee
Never wholly anywhere, never with anyone, either, that was me... Even as a child I seemed to myself a traveller who had been delayed in the middle of an urgent journey.
#Life was an unconscionable wait, walking up and down the platform, watching for the train. People got in the way and blocked my view, I had to crane to see past them.
— John Banville, #Book of Evidence
https://www.raintaxi.com/that-particular-intense-gaze-an-appreciation-of-john-banville/
Kneecap
Mu sgaoil aig Barrowlands, Glaschu.
Irish language rap and techno from the Six Counties.
The O'Hanrahan Plains
#Irish locations in #worldOfWarcraft
@glynmoody There was a toe-curlingly bad interview by #Irish Trump-groupie journalist Niamh Horan last week. It looks so much worse as a failure to inquire now.
https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/republic-of-ireland/donald-trump-interview-were-people-afraid-of-me-thats-for-historians-to-say-but-you-know-i-got-what-i-wanted/1167884310.html
(Also from 2018 Niamh Horan writing "Don't follow the herd on Trump, look at the successes his presidency is delivering" https://twitter.com/Independent_ie/status/950069011412287488?s=20)
Cherish the Ladies - Johnny Doherty's / The Cock and the Hen / The Humo
https://youtu.be/sJ0QxRNjkQk
#Jameson #whiskey bottled 5 months ago in #Dublin sold openly in russia
“The images of a famous Irish product, complete with the address of #Irish Distillers Limited and the Clondalkin address of the bottling operation, are there for all to see on the russian label. It was bottled less than five months ago and is now sold in central moscow"
Time’s up - Pernod Ricard must be added to the #EU #Sanctions list
Read more here🔗 https://www.finegael.ie/jameson-bottled-5-months-ago-in-dublin-sold-openly-in-russia-ahearn/
Quebec’s language watchdog says a Celtic pub in Montreal may have to change its sign now and again in two years to comply with laws regarding the use of languages other than French by businesses.
Two Guinness beer toucan posters featuring English words were also targeted. One came down, the other now has an English translation next to it.
#montreal #quebec #irish #pubs
https://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/ye-olde-orchard-pub-french-oqlf-english-sign
#Celtic #MythologyMonday: „In #Irish #mythology, #swans are usually depicted as shape-shifters, capable of transforming into human and bird form at will. They could be distinguished from normal swans by the gold or silver chain which hung about their necks.“
Source: Ali Isaac
https://twitter.com/jimfitzpatrick/status/1172579974810886146
#New (ish) #song on the way in the coming days. Back in 2014 I wrote a song about the hypocrisy of the welcome a future (now former) 'world leader' got from the #Irish government. He's in #Ireland again so I've decided to update it #WatchThisSpace 🎶 https://youtu.be/ciRy304LSpM here's the original
#Irish #workers #pay fell 3.9% behind inflation last year, equivalent to a €2,107 pay cut or working 8.3 days for free.
Most alarmingly, extreme #wealth and extreme #poverty have both increased - for the first time in 25 years
#Oxfam said there is an urgent need for#Ireland to discuss taxing #ExtremeWealth to balance #executive pay and #workers pay.
https://www.rte.ie/news/business/2023/0501/1380010-inflation-oxfam/
@dublininquirer @johnnyryan @samtranum R.e. “It’s too risky, and not a big enough deal, I don’t want to risk losing my career and my house over it.”
How many #Irish journalists have lost their career or their house pursuing a story they reasonably believed to be credible? Irish media organisations are incredibly risk-averse, and do not support investigative journalists well.
Belfast Telegraph: "Irish language to be used during coronation of King Charles"
Well that's going to impress the DUP, not. Gaeilge being used in the coronation of a king to which they pledge undying fealty does somewhat undermine the DUP opposition to Irish language legislation.
#Irish #President condemns ‘obsession’ with economic growth
https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/2023/04/28/president-condemns-obsession-with-economic-growth/
<< True, but it is not just economists.
Most of Ireland is deeply committed to ignoring or dismissing the ongoing ecological crisis. Indeed, by many pollution metrics, per capita, Ireland is near, or is, the worst of EU states.
By being small, we have escaped the international damnation that our polluting ways deserve - our reckoning is long overdue.
#Ireland #environment #green #pollution
#Irish Distillers owner Pernod Ricard exported €15.6m of Jameson to russia since September
Customs data seen hows the whiskey travelled to russia from Latvia via a logistics company and an Eastern European arm of PernodRicard.The customs records say the whiskey originated in #Ireland and was imported by it's russian subsidiary
On Thursday, the company said it plans to stop exports of Jameson to russia but it is not clear when this will happen
Read more here🔗 https://m.independent.ie/irish-news/irish-distillers-owner-pernod-ricard-exported-156m-of-jameson-to-russia-since-september/a1370855317.html
Exports of Jameson to russia to be halted following backlash
Owner Pernod Ricard reversed its decision and halt exports following the backlash
Activists staged a protest outside the #Dublin headquarters of #Irish Distillers and parent company Pernod-Ricard on Thursday, protesting a decision by the company to resume exports of #Jameson to russia.
Read more here🔗 https://www.irishexaminer.com/business/companies/arid-41126230.html
#Ukraine 🇺🇦 #SlavaUkraine #RussiaIsATerroristState
#СлаваУкраїні! #France #StandWithUkraine
Interesting to see that Michael Lohan, the new CEO of IDA Ireland, had to address the #IrishHousingCrisis during his recent #Bloomberg interview.
The problem is now on the global journalism radar. Will the latest shift in #Irish government policy love the needle quickly enough to avoid an adverse #FDI impact
It's National DNA Day!
I'm #adopted , so until I had my #DNA tested by 23andMe, AncestryDNA, & FTDNA, I had no idea who or what I was. My adopters told me I was French. Turns out, I'm #Basque , #Finnish , #Norwegian , a little #Irish , a little #English .
Do you know your ethnicity? I find the subject fascinating--prolly bc I was always denied my most fundamental truths re: ancestry & heritage. If you'd like to share, I'd love to hear your story. #NationalDNADay #adoption #AdopteeVoices
A UI could move to Schengen and give up the CTA. It would be so much better too. Those ESTA’s UK Govt wishes to implement will destroy NI Tourism, affect Universities in NI, and cause all kinds of other problems. I hope Scotland gains its independence asap. Then both can rejoin EU, use the Euro and progress. Wales may take longer to get to Independence. The recent interference by WM in a devolved self ID vote in Scotland suggests they have a bigger fight on their hands. #irish #snp
@sinabhfuil The date seems to be correct, looking at this newspaper article about a rather known #Irish passenger: https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030272/1912-09-22/ed-1/seq-9/#date1=1912&sort=date&rows=20&words=Baltic&searchType=basic&sequence=0&index=0&state=New+York&date2=1912&proxtext=baltic+&y=0&x=0&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=19
"That's It! Cheese!"
"We'll go somewhere where there's #cheese!"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7rzSslub6U
10 Most Popular #Irish Cheeses
https://www.tasteatlas.com/most-popular-cheeses-in-ireland
Happy #stpatricksday
Green flowers symbolize nature, life and rejuvenation as well as youth and good fortune in some parts of the world.
#SharePamsArt👇
https://3-pamela-williams.pixels.com/featured/10891-green-chrysanthemum-pamela-williams.html
#TheArtDistrict #AYearForArt #ArtMatters #Art #Smile #Mastadonart #FediArt #MastoArt #Smile #ArtBooster #buyintoart
#green #nature #plant #plants #flower #Chrysanthemum #flowers #spring #springtime #luck #lucky #saintpatricksday #stpaddys #irish #green #colorfulart #fun #cute #happy #SpringThings #ModernArt
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.
#StPatricksDay #SaintPatricksDay #Irish #History #Ireland #Catholic
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
Here's a song about #Ireland by #Irish songstresses.
"From the Mountains to the Sea" by Mary Black (featuring Imelda May).
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
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https://www.puma-it.ie/en/contact/tell-us-what-you-need
"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
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
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.
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
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.
“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
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
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)
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
#XiaomaNYC in #Dublin #Ireland speaking #Irish
Watching this really makes we want to up my level of #Gaeilge
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.