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Irish Workshop – Saturday morning and afternoon
Irish Workshop-Friday
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Bhí scéal agam (I had a story)
Every Monday night in Irish class we are all supposed to tell a scéal–a story about something that had happened in our lives. The idea is provide to practise composing and speaking Irish. The truth value of the scéal is not particularly important–It can be completely made up. This is personally difficult, since mistakes are inevitable and I do not deal well with making mistakes in public. But it is obviously important, so I go ahead.
In the scéal I try to talk about something that really happened, simply because I want to relate Irish to the rest of my life. Last night I said a little bit about Convergence. This may have been too ambitious, since I had to look up some specialized vocabulary. However, the work was fun. Continue reading
Irish Spam
Fuair mé turscar as Gaeilge. (I received Irish language spam today) Continue reading
Warfare in mid 17th Century Ireland
I have been reading Confederate Catholics at War: 1641-49, by Pádraig Lenihan. It is about the Irish part of the British Civil Wars. Quite a number of interesting points. Continue reading
Flashcards for the 21st century
An Críochnaitheoir
Arnold Schwarzenegger as Gaeilge. Continue reading
A really strange Irish word
ainbhlinn = “froth from the mouth of a decaying corpse” — from last night’s Irish class.