Irish language Irish language The Auraicept na n-Éces ("the scholars' primer") is claimed as a 7th century work of Irish grammarians, written by a scholar named Longarad. The only surviving copy of the Auraicept is preserverd in the Book of Ballymote (foll. 169r–180r), compiled by Maghnus Ó Duibhgeánáin of County Sligo in 1390. The core of the text could indeed date to the mid-7th century, but much material will have been added over the 700 years preceding the text as recorded in the Book of Ballymote. ...more on Wikipedia about "Auraicept na n-Éces"
A bard is a poet or singer, in religious or feudal contexts. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bard"
Céad míle fáilte is an Irish greeting meaning "a hundred thousand welcomes." ...more on Wikipedia about "Céad míle fáilte"
Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann (Society of Irish Musicians in English), refers to an organisation in Ireland which is dedicated to the promotion of the music, song, dance and language of Ireland. It was founded in 1951 by a group of traditional pipers who felt that the musical tradition was on the decline. In Ireland, the organisation is often abbreviated to just Comhaltas. ...more on Wikipedia about "Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann"
Connacht Irish is the dialect of the Irish language spoken in the province of Connacht. Gaeltacht regions in Connacht are found in Counties Mayo (notably on Achill Island) and Galway (notably in Connemara and on the Aran Islands). The Mayo and Galway varieties differ from each other in a variety of ways, as Mayo Irish has a number of features in common with Ulster Irish. ...more on Wikipedia about "Connacht Irish"
Scottish Gaelic is similar to Irish, although most dialects are not mutually comprehensible. ...more on Wikipedia about "Differences between Scottish Gaelic and Irish"
Fíorscéal is an Irish language documentary series produced for Irish language television channel TG4 (previously Teilifís na Gaeilge) on aspects of world current affairs and other topics. ...more on Wikipedia about "Fíorscéal"
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Foras na Gaeilge is the governing body of the Irish language, responsible for the promotion of the language throughout all of Ireland. ...more on Wikipedia about "Foras na Gaeilge"
Conradh na Gaeilge (The Gaelic League) is an organization "for the purpose of keeping the Irish language spoken in Ireland." It was founded in Dublin on July 31, 1893 by Douglas Hyde, a Protestant and a Unionist from Frenchpark, County Roscommon. Other founders included Eugene O'Growney, Eoin MacNeill, Luke K. Walsh and others. It developed from the earlier Gaelic Union and became the leading institution promoting the Gaelic Revival. The league's newspaper was An Claidheamh Soluis ("The Sword of Light") and its most noted editor was Patrick Pearse. ...more on Wikipedia about "Gaelic League"
A gaelscoil (Plural: gaelscoileanna) is an Irish-speaking school often also co-educational usually found in Ireland. Irish is the working language for these schools. Most of the schools are under the patronage of Foras Pátrunachta na Scoileanna LánGhaeilge. Some gaelscoileanna for the deaf also exist, as Irish Sign Language is, like American and British sign langages, a separate language. ...more on Wikipedia about "Gaelscoil"
Gaeltacht, plural Gaeltachtaí, is an Irish word for an Irish-speaking region. In Ireland, The Gaeltacht, or An Ghaeltacht, refers to any of the regions in Ireland where the Irish language is officially the major language, that is, the vernacular spoken at home. These regions were first officially recognised during the early years of the Irish Free State after the Gaelic Revival as part of government policy to restore the Irish language. The Gaeltacht boundaries have not been changed since they were set in the 1950s, though the Irish-speaking population has seriously decreased from what it was then. In most Gaeltacht areas, Irish speakers are now in the minority. ...more on Wikipedia about "Gaeltacht"
The Irish calendar does not observe the typical astronomical seasons (beginning, in the Northern Hemisphere, on the equinoxes and solstices), or the meteorological seasons (beginning on March 1, June 1, September 1 and December 1), but rather centers the seasons around the solstices and equinoxes (so that, for instance, midsummer falls on the summer solstice), beginning the seasons at the approximate halfway points between solstice and equinox, following the seasons of the ancient Celts (see below) which are pre-Christian in origin. This Celtic origin is particularly evident in the Irish naming of many of the months: some names, like May ( Bealtaine), August ( Lughnasadh/Lúnasa) and November ( Samhain, sometimes also in the form of Mí na Samhna) were the names of pagan Celtic festivals. In addition, the names for September and October (Meán Fómhair and Deireadh Fómhair respectively) translate directly as "middle of autumn" and "end of autumn". Christianity has also left its mark on the Irish months: December is Mí na Nollag, or just Nollaig, the latter word also meaning Christmastide. ...more on Wikipedia about "Irish calendar"
The Irish Folklore Commission (Coimisiún Béaloideasa Éireann in Irish) was set up in 1935 by the Irish Government to study and collect information on the folklore and traditions of Ireland. ...more on Wikipedia about "Irish Folklore Commission"
Irish uses two mutations on consonants: lenition and eclipsis. (The alternative names, aspiration for lenition and nasalisation for eclipsis, are also used, but the terms are a bit misleading.) ...more on Wikipedia about "Irish initial mutations"
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Irish (Gaeilge), a Goidelic language spoken in the Republic of Ireland, the United Kingdom, Canada and the United States, is constitutionally recognized as the first official language of the Republic of Ireland. On 13 June, 2005, EU foreign ministers unanimously decided to make Irish an official working language of the European Union. The new arrangements will come into effect on January 1, 2007. ...more on Wikipedia about "Irish language"
The Irish language is a minority language in Northern Ireland (known in Irish as "Tuaisceart Éireann". The dialect spoken there is known as Ulster Irish. ...more on Wikipedia about "Irish language in Northern Ireland"
The morphology of Irish is in some respects typical of an Indo-European language. Nouns are declined for gender, number, and case, and verbs for person and number. Other aspects of Irish morphology, while typical for a Celtic language, are not typical for Indo-European, such as the presence of inflected prepositions and the initial consonant mutations. ...more on Wikipedia about "Irish morphology"
A formal Irish Gaelic name consists of a given name and a surname, as in English. Surnames in Irish are generally patronymic in etymology, although they are no longer literal patronyms, as Icelandic names are. The form of a surname varies according to whether its bearer is male or female, and in the case of a married woman, whether she chooses to adopt her husband's surname. ...more on Wikipedia about "Irish name"
The nominals of Irish include the nouns, the definite article, and the adjectives. The declension of these forms is discussed on this page. (For pronouns, see Irish morphology.) ...more on Wikipedia about "Irish nominals"
Irish orthography has the reputation of being very difficult to learn and of bearing only a tenuous relationship to pronunciation. This reputation is not entirely undeserved; the statements on this page must be interpreted as tendencies, not hard and fast rules. Among the vowels, there are exceptions to virtually every letter/sound correspondence listed below. Exceptions in the consonants are fewer, but there are still some. In fact, Irish spelling is mainly based on etymological relations, very much like English orthography, although the latter is even more irregular in this regard. ...more on Wikipedia about "Irish orthography"
The phonology of the Irish language varies from dialect to dialect. The processes discussed here reflect a somewhat idealized version of "school Irish" that tends to be used by teachers outside of the Gaeltacht areas. ...more on Wikipedia about "Irish phonology"
Irish syntax is rather different from that of most Indo-European languages, notably because of its VSO word order. ...more on Wikipedia about "Irish syntax"
Irish verb forms are constructed either synthetically or analytically. ...more on Wikipedia about "Irish verbs"
Unnaturalized Irish words used in the English language, that have been officially and generally adopted in modern Ireland, include: ...more on Wikipedia about "Irish words used in the English language"
Founded in 1966, the Language Freedom Movement was an organization dedicated to the opposition of the state-sponsored Gaelic Revival of the Irish language in the Republic of Ireland with backing by such notable figures as Irish-language authors Séamus Ó Grianna ("Máire") and John B. Keane. ...more on Wikipedia about "Language Freedom Movement"
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