Deconstructing Myths about the Irish Language | Colm Ó Broin | TEDxBallyroanLibrary

[meganhasreturnedtorome]

People say "Irish names are weird" and then name their child MycKayinleigh

[florafauna]

Keep the Irish language alive. If you lose this heritage of yours, you'll be much much poorer, culturally bankrupt.

[johnpower]

Irish names don't sound like they should in English because its Irish. The same way Polish names don't sound like they should in English, why? Because its Polish.

[dissonanceparadiddle]

I love Gaeilge. I was raised on it. It's a beautiful language and I hope it's spoken for centuries to come

[just_depie]

Is Gréagach mé and I'm learning Gaeilge. Please protect this beautiful language and be proud of your heritage 🇬🇷❤️🇮🇪

[gastonmartinez]

I'm an argentinian guy watching this and I am learning Irish at the moment because it's truly a magical language with its unique ways to express feelings and things.

Is as an Argaintín mé agus táim na Gaeilge a fhoghlaim anois. Is teanga go h-álainn agus le lán driocht í, mar sim táim sásta go mbeidh sí go luath ionam 😀

[songtraveler]

I have studied Irish and I can assure you that Irish spelling is far more consistent than English spelling. It's a question of learning the spelling conventions, that's all. Once you learn them you can pronounce any word with confidence. Irish is a beautiful, expressive language. Especially beautiful when sung.

[ansh]

A fun way to learn Irish is to start by rote learning a few songs such as buachaill ón Eirne mé or Éamonn an cnoic. You will learn useful phrases and be the life of the party and maybe compete in singing in Irish at a fleadh. With youtube, almost everything is possible.

[fionnmaccurtain]

Ancient Irish culture and mythology are hugely interesting

[MrFearDubh]

Carr is not a word loaned from English. The Irish language had the word carr for a wheeled vehicle since the beginning. It comes from proto-celtic. The English word car is loaned from the Latin carrus. The Romans got this word from another Celtic people, the Gauls, and their word carr for wheeled vehicles (primarily chariots which Romans hadn't seen before). In fact the English word chariot also ultimately comes from the Celtic word carr.

[papester]

Keep it alive! I love Irish; It's beautiful and romantic.

[bboppppppppppppp]

i am part irish from my dad's mother, i have been getting more of an urge to learn gaelic learn about irish culture within the past two years like a cow slowly being drawn to a stream. thanks for what you do!

[caoimhe]

We also need to realise that the world doesn't revolve around the English language. We don't need to explain why our names are pronounced this way. The way we use the alphabet is completely different to the way the English use it. It's just ridiculous that people get so confused about our names. Our names follow the Irish rules of pronounciation because it's a completely different language lol. Amadán tú má cheapann tú mar sin 🙃

[dershogun]

The word "carr" (car) is not a borrowed word. Carr was alsways and is a celtic word. The romans borrowed it from the celts, the french borrowed it from latin (which borrowed it from gaulish i assume) and english borrowed it from french. Also my native language german borrowed the word "Karren" from carr. karren means wheelbarrow or cart in modern high german and the english word Car or the latin Karrus ment wheelbarrow also until the Automobile was invented and because Automobile sounds so "scientific", "car" was used in the english language. You see: Irish (or more precisely: Gaulish but irish is a brother language of gaulish, at least old irish) has spread one of it's words through the whole of western europe ;)

[cbabick]

I'm American and have a degree in linguistics. Although I haven't got a drop of Irish blood (all ancestry is Russian/Ukrainian), I love the Irish language for some reason and think it is beautiful and fascinating. It contains echoes of an ancient past. I'm sure you know that many Americans with an Irish background study the language. We don't have the biases and misconceptions you outline. I intend to keep studying it and share my love for it with others. Thank you for making this presentation, which is logical and solid. And I absolutely love the way you talk, BTW!

[jimobrien]

It’s sickening whenever any people are contemptuous of their own culture

[billnicks]

Peigs book doesn't even properly show how Peig was. SHe was an incredible storyteller and not the bore people make her out to be. Her house was always full till well past midnight most nights with people dancing and telling stories. She was known for her love of jokes and bawdy stories.

[gemmagomez]

The mountain thing reminds me of that rock formation in Scotland which was anglicized to "The Old Man of Storr, " but which in Gaidhlig is "The [male genitalia] of Storr".

[bjpcorp]

I'd like to de-anglicize my name and learn to speak and write Irish.

[patwinders]

My grandad refused to speak to speak English. He only spoke Gaelic. Wish I had learned to speak it when I was younger.