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!

[Polyglotvibes]

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 🙏

[Euphoristikum]

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

[sula]

Thank you for this and the respect you have shown to our language and heritage ❤

[peteymax]

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

[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.

[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.

[morvil]

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.

[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. 👍🇺🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪

[seanoriain]

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

[cjfz]

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

[AlexanderDietz-kz]

I am imagining an Ireland where restoring Irish as the one national language in the Freestate, later Republic, has been successful, when everybody, be it Dublin or Cork, is talking in Irish on the streets. This would not be exactly the same as traditional Irish before, especially in Eastern Ireland. In the West, the once still strong influence of Irish onto English would have pulled back onto revived Irish. Ivrith in Israel is not the same as ancient Hebrew as well, but Yiddish- and European-influenced. Ivrith today does not sound like the related Arabic. But it is said that Abraham could ask for bread in Israel today and would be understood.

I have read, however, a controversial sight of the endangernment of Irish. Yes, the essay said that Irish is among the save languages of the world as it has a sound standing as literature language and is regularly used by a small but consolidated minority, either daily or occasionally. The founding of Radio na Life and Radio Fáilte as well as Irish language literature competitions fulfill the wishes of urban Irish speakers. Otherwise, they would not be there.

However, traditiinal Irish is critically endangered like it is spoken by elderly Gaeltacht speakers and some younger ones from the strongest Gaeltacht areas. Most younger Gaeltacht speakers speak so-called urban or Gaelscoil Irish, too. The thrilled broad "r" is already on the brink of extinction. However, it would be satisfying if the Gaelic nobles could return and apply for political office in Ireland and for getting back their residence.

[sula]

I would also say that 'irish with mollie' is much better than duolingo, as duolingo teaches o correct sentence structure and have been asked to update their app. So you may learn individual words with it but putting it all together is tricky and fluent irish language speakers have brought this to their attention so I don't trust it to actually understand the language and sentence structure correctly if that makes sense.

[ab]

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

[Mark-ejuf]

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

[jordanandrei]

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.

[ucmeytsc]

arrived in 500BC, you know nothing, we have been here for over 10000 years minimum!

[disappointedenglishman]

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.

[kelrogers]

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.