Roidsear Ive read some of your post and you keep speeking this language ... see my grandparents left Ireland and Im trying to get back to me roots personaly the states are grand but my loyalties are with Ireland so any information would be much appreacated you seem to be the one to ask.

Go raibh maith agat as do cheist, mo chara...
Thanks for your question, my friend...

I started to teach myself Irish about a year ago. I'm not fluent, but I try to forge my way through, and it's fun.... ;)

There are several websites that I use for my studies.
here are some of them...

http://www.smo.uhi.ac.uk - The Sabhal M�r Ostaigh on the Isle of Skye

http://www.daltai.com - Dalta� na Gaeilge

http://www.irishpage.com/irishpeople/ - Lessons

http://www.contemporarypoetry.com/brain/lang - Lessons by Neil McEwan

And I highly recommend subscribing to the GAEILGE-B Irish beginner's list on the SMO: http://www.smo.uhi.ac.uk/liosta/

You're given a warm welcome there and receive lots of help and hints regarding every aspect of the language.

Additionally, I'm currently planning a page on http://roidsear.celtic-lyrics.com with links and infos about Irish...

Well,
Go n-�ir� an b�thar leat, mo chara!
May the road rise up to meet you, my friend!

Roidsear, would ye beleive if I say that here in Russia I'm translating Irish folksongs into Russian and perfurm wid that stuff? ;)

Great to see Irish culture being appreciated and promoted in other lands.

Pity the same can't be said for Ireland.

When it's completely dead, when we've become just carbon copies of our Anglo-Saxon neighbours, people will probably look back and wonder why the poeple before them let it die. Good to know we leave our children no sense of identity.

Sl�n mo chairde

thanks alot
i'm hopping to be moving there in a couple of years
possibly when i finish school
one of the colleges i want to go to is in london unfortunatly i cant fing an arts school in ireland

well thanks again
jaycie

a good start to find something in ireland would be
http://www.doras.ie
doras is Irish for door, portal...

Agus, a She�in, creid m� �... ;)
And, Se�n, I believe it... ;)

As I see it, Irish Folk is quite popular outside of Ireland, even younger people listen to it and it's a kind of a 'magic' that attracts people of all ages. At least, that's what it's like in Germany.
Whereas I've heard that in Ireland the sean-n�s is not that widely listened to, in the sense of an audience that covers a wide range of ages...

Bhuel, Sl�n go f�ill... Rachaidh m� abhaile anois de bhr� go m� tinn-tuirseach... An Domhain de obair ann...

Well, Bye for now... I'll go home now because I'm tired...
A hell lot of work here...

Go n-�ir� an b�thar libh, a chairde go leor!
Sl�n,
#Roidsear

This would be the darkest of all futures... I, on my behalf, will do everything I can to prevent this from happening...

"Thig cr�och air an t-saoghal,
Is thig cr�och air daoin'
Ach mairidh ceol is gaol gu brath!"

...though this is Scottish Gaelic (G�idhlig, Gaeilge na hAlban), It's a nice one...

"And end will come to this world,
And an and will come to mankind
But music and love will live for ever more!"

(used in the RUNRIG-song "Air a chuan")

Sl�n tamaill, mo chairde!
Tiocfaidh �r l�... n� fad� amach sa dtodhcha�!
(...not so far in the future!)

#Gwaewglyw (<-- my name in Welsh... weird, isn't it? ;) )

Suppose you gotta be optimistic. Was reading a book bout Celtic Druids called "Celtic Wisdom - A Celtic Shaman's Sourcebook" (don't ask me why...but it's really interesting anyways), and apparently there's still some in Druids in Ireland. Anyway, I guess if they can keep their pagan traditions in the face of one of the most oppressive forces in the world (Christianity), then we can keep our language and traditions.

One of the modern Druids, Wallace Black Elk (what a name...) summed it up anyway:

"There is no such thing as a forgotten tradition. It is possible to neglect such traditions, but these can always be recovered. No tradition ever dies until the last person who honours it dies".

Sl�n tamaill

well i've got a membership to htis place (finoly got around to it) ya know i don't think christians are oppressive we are acctualy quite once you get to know us though there are those who can be poppus assholes ;) . thanks for all the info

Agus t� cl�r-cinn eile faoi h�ireann...

And there's another website called www.shee-eire.com
All about ancient Ireland...

T� t� ceart go leor.... As long as there are people honouring it...

Sl�n tamaill, mo chairde!

Tiocfaidh �r l�!!!!

#Roidsear