Irish Class, January 14, 2008

The first part of the class was a game. Each of us was given a card with some general category. We had to come up with specific examples for that category. E.g. éadaí “clothes”.

• léine “shirt”
• briste “trousers”
• cóta “coat”
• gúna “dress”
• stoca “stocking”
• sciorta “skirt”
• geansaí “sweater”

Each of us would first say a few of our examples. The other class members would try to guess what the general category was. If they did not get it at first we would add more examples.

The second hour was spent beginning our reading of Gaeileoirí. My notes for that are here. I will be adding to them each week as we read the play.

While reading the first scene JS said that it sounded familiar. She had to leave early, but as we read the second scene I realize that three of us had seen it on video at last summer’s Winona workshop.