Introduction Today we’re going to look at the website Vifax. This website is put out and organized by NUI Maynooth, and is one of the best tools for practicing your listening skills in Irish. During the school year, they release two videos weekly (last time I checked, it was on Read more…
One of the rich features of English is, in my opinion, the use of similes. It adds a level of texture to someone’s speech, and they often can be frequently used. In this post, I’ll discuss some similes in Irish. Some will be generic ones, but others will be pulled Read more…
These old phrases and proverbs (lit. old words and old expressions) were taken from a book called Máire Phatch Mhóir Uí Churraoin: A Scéal Féin, edited by Diarmuid Ó Gráinne, go ndéanfaidh Dia trócaire air. They were collected in 1993 from a woman who was born in 1912 in Indreabhán, Read more…
2024 Update A lot has changed since I initially wrote this piece, sometime around 2016 or so. It was originally written for Reddit, then migrated here when the blog started. I just wanted to give an update about Duolingo now and why it’s even worse for Irish than it was Read more…
This is a continuation from the previous post. In this one the prepositions i, le, ó, roimh, thar, and idir will be used. As in the previous post, the Connemara form is on the right. The forms go: base, first person singular, second person singular, third person singular masculine, third Read more…
To start things off here, we’ll start by discussing some of the common features of Connemara Irish. Most of these features are common throughout Connemara, though it, of course, may depend on speakers. One of the most common, and easiest, tells of Connemara Irish is the difference in the prepositions Read more…
This post discusses the aim of the site Go mbeannaí Dia dhaoibh agus fáilte romhaibh go léir. Greetings and welcome! The purpose of this site is to spread knowledge about the Irish language. There are lots of aspects of it that many people might be curious about, and that are Read more…