The focus of this post, as is clear from the title, is Connemara Irish. Today, in honor of that, we’re going to look at what the sources for Connemara Irish. These sources will include a mix of things, between material Read more…
As AnLoingseach, who notoriously is not quick at uploading videos, has uploaded not one, but two great videos, I assume it’s time for me to update something on this blog. The first of these is on the pronunciation and history of Read more…
I know I haven’t updated here recently, and I apologize for that. Things have been a bit busy, and I haven’t been transcribing as much as I would like. But, I have been buying books. All but one of them, Read more…
In today’s post, we’ll discuss the various Irish dialects of Connacht that exists at the turn of the 20th century. This post is a follow-up to both AnLoingseach‘s amazing video about proper Irish pronunciation and dazpatreg’s follow-up to that video Read more…
Another story from Éamonn a’ Búrc this time. Sorry for the delay in getting this one transcribed and sent out. I hope it’s interesting and you can gather some useful stuff about Connemara Irish from it. It can be found Read more…
I’ve been busy (and unfocused) and haven’t gotten a story transcribed recently, though I promise more are coming. To make up for it, I’m going to show some maps that were made from the Caint Chonamara corpus detailing some subdialectal Read more…
Once again, we turn to Éamonn a’ Búrc to give us this week’s dose of Connemara Irish. This story is from the Main Manuscript Collection and can be found on Dúchas here. All notes in the text itself are from Read more…
It’s funny how, just a week after I said I was hoping to be more consistent it didn’t really happen. But, I did get another story transcribed. Once again, as can be guessed, it’s from Éamonn a’ Búrc, transcribed from Read more…
A shorter story today from Éamonn, which is what allowed me to do another one this week. I’m trying to be more consistent about transcribing pages, so hopefully I’ll be able to get these out more frequently. I’m also thinking Read more…
This week’s story is also from Éamonn a’ Búrc. It can be found on Dúchais here. Fear a bhí fadó ánn agus gho’ sé ag iarra bean agus fuair sé í. Agus bhí sí bliain pósta go díreach nuair bhí Read more…