An Introduction to Gaeilge: The Language of Ireland

In honor of Irish Heritage Month, please join us and The Irish Coastal Club for a virtual presentation on the language of Ireland!
Lecturer Liz Kading and musician David Iler will explore the history, current status, and the future of Ireland’s beautiful Gaelic language. You may discover you already know cúpla focal (a few words) of Irish-and perhaps you’ll be inspired to learn a few more!
Bígí linn! Join us!

[@morzanturian4946]

Obrigado pela aula de introdução.

[@Euphoristikum]

Thank you for this introduction to irish language history. That was really interesting

[@Polyglotvibes23]

First of all, go raibh maith agat for this awesome presentation. I have no ties with Ireland, Britain or Western Europe, however, I hope that in the future I'll learn Irish since is such a rich, colourful and attractive language. I also believe that we will be able to preserve not just Irish, but other local languages which constitute the true wealth of the humankind 🙏

[@ZadenZane]

Hey Liz Kading if you see this yes you could learn Irish before the internet! There were Teach Yourself books... the Routledge Colloquial series... Linguaphone did a pretty detailed Irish course. I've found the old-fashioned books-and-audio method still works best; everything else is just a backup. I'm learning Welsh not Irish but I'm using all three of the series I mentioned. The best help, I find, is watching Welsh language TV with Welsh subtitles.

[@trinity5842]

Wonderful!

[@morvil73]

A correction of generally used terminology… all the living and revived Celtic languages spoken today are classed as “Insular Celtic”, both the Gaelic/Goidelic as well as the British/Brythonic languages. The mentioned “Continental Celtic” languages are all extinct and became so in the transitional era between antiquity and the middle ages, and include Gaulish, Celtiberian, Lepontic and Galatian. Scholarly consensus today is that Gaulish and British were very close to each other, if not variants of the same language in antiquity, so the dichotomy between “Insular” and “Continental” may be less meaningful in terms of historical linguistics, but nonetheless this is the established terminology.

[@peteymax]

Go h-iontach 😊go raibh maith agat. I really enjoyed this presentation.

[@languageoffootball]

Please would you be so kind as to list the learning resources you have used in the comments or video descriptions? Thanks a million.

[@westerlylibraryandwilcoxpa2737]

Thank you for your inquiry! This program was presented by the Irish Coastal Club of Westerly, RI so perhaps they could reach out to the presenter, Liz Kading on your behalf. You can contact their organization here: www.irishcoastalclub.org/copy-of-contact We hope that helps!

[@ShuaibuSani-hu9hb]

Beautiful language at wonderful land

[@seanoriain8294]

Comhghairdeas, a Liz. Many thanks for getting the terminology correct, i.e. "Gaeilge" = "Irish", not "Gaelic"!

[@peteymax]

I used to get annoyed at the use of Gaelic, but now I just think it harps back to when Gaeilge, Manx agus Gàidhlig were one.

[@seanoriain8294]

It does, but it is dangerous, as it opens a path for those who wish to marginalise the Irish language, by saying things like "I am Irish but I do not speak Gaelic". It implicitly denies the constitutional status of Irish, as the national language of Ireland. It is of course accurate when we speak of features that Irish, Manx and Scottish Gaelic have in common.

[@cjfz26]

Thanks Liz for doing this presentation My name is Christina Fitzgerald this video has help me to understand the Irish language I have done my DNA ancestry test I have 43% Irish and 37% Scottish. My Dad came from Munster which is in Limerick I would like be just like him he was a fluent speaker he came from Southern Ireland so I am keen to speak in Irish as well

[@IosuamacaMhadaidh]

As a descendant of kings of Dál Riata, I approve.😂 Slàinte mhath mo charaidean, I'm learning Gàidhlig but want to learn Irish too. 👍🇺🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪

[@shamrockgerry]

Ta se go maith agat ☘️🇮🇪🇺🇸🇨🇦

[@georgemurphy1050]

Ar fheabhas. Go raibh maith agat.

[@989629ab]

Strange how you write General Professor Eoin MacNeill out of the story of the Irish revival and his contribution to modern Irish !

[@caesar1432323]

Go raibh maith agat

[@Mark-ej4uf]

Indo European for us means Native American Indian Languages mixed with Europeans languages. Asians are not Indians.

[@jordanandrei4984]

Firstly I want to say thank you for making this video. Secondly I just want to point out that the pronunciation of Irish words are very off, Irish and English do not share the same phonology.

[@peteymax]

In the video her pronunciation was great.

[@jordanandrei4984]

@@peteymax Truthfully it was not, despite the fact that many Irish people (non-native speakers) speak like that, that’s not what the Irish language sounds like, look up the phonetics of the Irish language and you will see that they are not the same as English’s

[@disappointedenglishman98]

In order not to misrepresent history: Irish children who spoke English were beaten BY THEIR PARENTS, not by the teachers. The parents saw this as a form of social advancement.

[@MrSuileile]

Do you know how pitiful that sounds? Do you realise the weight of historic evidence you've ignored in order to make that incredulous comment? lol use of the Irish language is still crime today in the courts of N. Ireland! The British pushed the Irish population, culture & language to the edge of extinction, that's just a historical fact!

[@MrSuileile]

The first British Law enacted in Ireland which specifically banned the use of the Irish language was Article III of The Statute of Kilkenny from 1367 . Things went downhill from there.

[@disappointedenglishman98]

@@MrSuileile Don't be an idiot. England itself wasn't controlled by the English -but by French-speaking Norman knights - in 1367. As was the Irish Pale. Funny this basic fact of history has passed you by. You don't even realise the Statute of Kilkenny was written .... in French!

[@MrSuileile]

@@disappointedenglishman98 I saw that you had time to respond to this on christmas day. your second statement does nothing to support your initial statement, in fact you seem to want to move on to a new strawman argument, Of course i'm aware that England was conquered by the french speaking normans, that's why i used the word "British" nobody in Ireland blames the english, our enemy has always been the British, They are still your oligarchy today & the english are still a conquered people.

[@COM70]

To add to your “absolute” statement of fact, in highly anglicised cities and towns (Dublin, Cork, Limerick etc, any city with better infrastructure) children were beaten Beaten by some of their teachers, sometimes their parents(who wouldn’t have any, or really poor English) in some cases and by the police as it was the equivalent of a public disorder offense. And for the record, the Irish government, civil service and department of education since the formation of the state has arguably done as much if not more to eradicate and stigmatise The Irish language.

[@kelrogers8480]

They printed a bible in irish to spread "protestantism"? Really? If reading the bible makes you a protestant then maybe you should question the validity of Catholic teaching, which claims to be biblically based? The fact is that the Bible was banned by the catholic church for the Irish people up until even the mid 20th century. It would seem to me that allowing a people to read the scriptures in their own language is hardly an act of war. I'm surprised at your comments.

[@peteymax]

You’ve taken that too far. The bible was used to spread a particular take on Christianity to allow for the introduction of divorce and re-marriage without acquisitions of polygamy and therefore breaking the laws (the Tudors)

[@crimthann-fathach]

They literally did print an irish bible to spread protestantism. Reading the bible didn't MAKE them protestant, but it was aimed at trying to rope in people by being printed in their native language. The Catholic Church became hostile to the Irish language as a result.

[@daraorourke5798]

The Protestants made no secret of their evangelism. War of Words by Tony Crowley is a very informative book on the subject..and Irish language in general.

[@kelrogers8480]

@@daraorourke5798 like the catholics didn't? It was Christianity being hijacked as a political weapon, just evil. Jesus, said quite clearly that His kingdom is not of this world! That's why his own Jewish people rejected Him: they were looking for a saviour who would overthrow Rome! He didn't come to create political insurrections, but to save ALL of mankind from the curse of sin!

[@DickDatchery]

If the Bible makes you a Protestant...? That is one of the more ignorant things I've seen written. "The Bible". Wow.