"Ever feel something heavy in your chest, but no word for it?
That’s what losin’ Irish feels like.
In English, you’re just ‘sad’. In Irish? Tá brón orm , the sorrow’s on ya
It’s not just a language we lost.
It’s a whole way of feeling
A whole way of seeing the world."

c: @theworkingclassseanchai on TikTok

#IrishLanguage #Gaeilge #Irish

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**Seosaṁ ᚛ᚄᚓᚑᚄᚐᚋᚆ᚜** @MadSc13ntist@mastodon.ie · May 22

May 22

Seosaṁ ᚛ᚄᚓᚑᚄᚐᚋᚆ᚜ @MadSc13ntist@mastodon.ie

#Gaeilge
"Tá do chroí an grian tharr mo tír, agus do ghlór an gaoithe trí mo choill. bígí liom a stór. gabh i leith."
https://youtu.be/4ultbf_2ZjE

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**Seosaṁ ᚛ᚄᚓᚑᚄᚐᚋᚆ᚜** @MadSc13ntist@mastodon.ie · May 21

May 21

Seosaṁ ᚛ᚄᚓᚑᚄᚐᚋᚆ᚜ @MadSc13ntist@mastodon.ie

#Gaeilge
practice your praise delivery a bit each day, preparing to shower your partner with affection for keeping the language alive in their heart.

I daresay you also won't come out of it looking too bad yourself.

there may come a day when this executes flawlessly during a night out with your one, and it will send the whole god damn room straight to the nearest comhrá for the shear heat of it.

**Seosaṁ ᚛ᚄᚓᚑᚄᚐᚋᚆ᚜** @MadSc13ntist@mastodon.ie · May 21 *

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Seosaṁ ᚛ᚄᚓᚑᚄᚐᚋᚆ᚜ @MadSc13ntist@mastodon.ie

Advice for young Gaels, curate "Irish Gomez Energy".

"a hAoife! bhí #Gaeilge.. ó habair liom a stóirín cen chaoi bhfuil tú chuisle mo chroí céard chuala tú ar an mbus cúpla focal eile a stór le do thoil?!"

GIF

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**Seosaṁ ᚛ᚄᚓᚑᚄᚐᚋᚆ᚜** @MadSc13ntist@mastodon.ie · May 19

May 19

Seosaṁ ᚛ᚄᚓᚑᚄᚐᚋᚆ᚜ @MadSc13ntist@mastodon.ie

ls fearr obair ná caint.

Filleann an feall ar an bhfeallaire.

Leagfaidh tua bheag crann mór.

Is fearr clú ná conach.

Dá fhada an lá, tagann an tráthnóna.

Ar scáth a chéile a mhaireann na daoine.

Is trom an t-ualach an t-aineolas.

Is fearr lúbadh na briseadh.

Ná caill do mhisneach.

An áit a mbíonn an dólás, bíonn an sólás ina aice.

#cló #gaeilge #GaeilgeGachLá

**Seosaṁ ᚛ᚄᚓᚑᚄᚐᚋᚆ᚜** @MadSc13ntist@mastodon.ie · May 19 *

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Seosaṁ ᚛ᚄᚓᚑᚄᚐᚋᚆ᚜ @MadSc13ntist@mastodon.ie

Go raibh míle maith agat.

Ní neart go cur le chéile.

Giorraíonn beirt bóthar.

Mol an óige agus tiocfaidh sí.

An donas amach, is sonas isteach.

Tús maith leath na hoibre.

is fada an bóthar nach mbíonn casadh ann.

Níl aon tinteán mar do thinteán féin.

An rud is annamh is iontach.

#cló #gaeilge #GaeilgeGachLá

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**Cormac sé/é** @crowmack@mastodon.ie · May 17

May 17

Cormac sé/é @crowmack@mastodon.ie

@bullivant Go raibh maith agat as na hacmhainní sin. #gaeilge

**iamBullivant** @bullivant@mastodon.ie · May 17

May 17

iamBullivant @bullivant@mastodon.ie

"An Irishman tried to learn Irish with Duolingo and it was a disaster..."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKVJRrjsIZQ

Who'd have thought? Personally, I wasted two good years on Duolingo.

"Why not Duolingo [for Irish], and what to use instead?"

https://gaeilgechonamara.com/why-not-duolingo-and-what-to-use-instead/

YouTubeAn Irishman tried to learn Irish with Duolingo and it was a disaster...By Call Me Kevin

#Gaeilinn #Gaeilge #Duolingo

**silmeth** @silmeth@mstdn.social · May 16

May 16

silmeth @silmeth@mstdn.social

My explanation of the use of (in)direct relative clauses with adverbials in #Irish #grammar.

Written on a forum that I _don’t_ want to advertise due to one active toxic user making it not be a safe space. But IMO the explanation is worth sharing.

The reason fáth, caoi take indirect clause is: they are nouns that do not work as adverbs. This indirect clause hides the historical presence of a preposition.

While you can say: sin í an chaoi a raibh sé, an fáth a raibh raibh sé ann, you cannot say *bhí sé an chaoi sin, *bhí sé ann an fáth sin. Caoi, fáth aren’t adverbs. You have to say sth like ‘sa chaoi sin’. Nua-Chorpas has some native examples of ‘an chaoi ina’ too.

It’s a hidden prepositional rel. clause. Same with fáth in historical data, DIL:

• in fath ar nách and roadnacht Cormac, the reason (on which) C. was not buried there
• in fáth forar crochad Ísu, the reason (on which) Jesus was hanged
• ga fáth 'ma ra molais in fer sain? why (what r. about which) did you praise that man?

FGB gives an fáth um a ndearna é for ‘the reason why he did it’.

True adverbials take direct rel. clause – no indirection/overt pronoun referring back to the antecedent:

• conas atá tú?
• nuair a bhí mé ann
• ar an mbord atá sé
• sin mar a bhí sé
• an bhliain/lá a bhí mé / a raibh mé

Note that you can substitute the antecedent into the clause: bhí mé ann lá…, tá sé ar an mbord.

& note an bhliain a raibh mé & that Connacht dialects use indirect more often with time clauses. Here, you can say either bhí mé ann an bhliain sin and sa bhliain sin.

True adverbials take direct relative clause in Irish, and indirect relative clauses are used for nouns (of manner, reason, place, time) which do not work adverbially on their own.

#Gaeilge #Gaelainn #gramadach

**iamBullivant** @bullivant@mastodon.ie · May 16

May 16

iamBullivant @bullivant@mastodon.ie

Irish letters in Ogham, the old Irish alphabet, are named after trees, which is nice.

Source: @davidstifter.bsky.social

#Ireland #Ogham #Gaeilge

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**Seosaṁ ᚛ᚄᚓᚑᚄᚐᚋᚆ᚜** @MadSc13ntist@mastodon.ie · May 15 *

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Seosaṁ ᚛ᚄᚓᚑᚄᚐᚋᚆ᚜ @MadSc13ntist@mastodon.ie

#gaeilge
i tell people all the time irl that we should be normalizing exposure to little parts of Irish in our day. even if it's just jotting a few thoughts with your favorite pencil, pen, brush or what have you.

I was thinking about things I said to my mother the last time we chatted on the phone. so please forgive the klunky read. tbo gml.

**Seosaṁ ᚛ᚄᚓᚑᚄᚐᚋᚆ᚜** @MadSc13ntist@mastodon.ie · May 15 *

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Seosaṁ ᚛ᚄᚓᚑᚄᚐᚋᚆ᚜ @MadSc13ntist@mastodon.ie

sampla mo lámh ar maidin.
#gaeilge (bhriste ).

(sin é mo chéad chaife. bígí deas a chairde. )

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**iamBullivant** @bullivant@mastodon.ie · May 15 *

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iamBullivant @bullivant@mastodon.ie

Úsáidtear an téarma chun cur síos a dhéanamh ar imeachtaí 1948, chún maith le géarleanúint agus díláithriú leanúnach na bPalaistíneach ar fud an réigiúin, forghabháil na gcríoch Palaistíneach. 2/2

#Stair #ArAnLáSeo #NaPalaistínigh

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