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Irish Language

Census Reports on Love and Language

By Olivia O’Mahony, Editorial Assistant
June / July 2017

May 24, 2017 by Leave a Comment

The results of the Republic of Ireland’s most recent census, conducted April 24, 2016, were released April 6. The census, which occurs every five years, requires everyone on Irish soil to submit a thorough account of their personal information for the production of updated national statistics. First produced in 1821, the census tracks the changes in Ireland’s population … [Read more...] about Census Reports on Love and Language

Mother Teanga

By Colin Lacey, Contributor
June / July 2017

May 24, 2017 by 2 Comments

The Irish language has roots stretching back at least 5,000 years and shares words with Sanskrit, the ancient classical language of India.  Almost all of us can speak a little Irish and often do. Words like “galore” and “brogue,” for example, or “smithereens” have all passed directly from Irish into English, often with little change to their original pronunciation. So the … [Read more...] about Mother Teanga

A Guide to Pronouncing
Irish Names

By Adam Farley, Deputy Editor
April / May 2016

March 25, 2016 by Leave a Comment

In January, actress Saoirse Ronan stopped by the Late Show with Stephen Colbert. She was there to promote her movie Brooklyn, but the conversation moved into Ronan teaching Colbert (whose ancestry is 15/16 Irish) both how to speak with an Irish accent and how to pronounce traditional Irish names – something that has no doubt been a problem since at least the eighth century, … [Read more...] about A Guide to Pronouncing
Irish Names

Awards to U.S. Students to Study Irish Language

By Matthew Skwiat, Contributing Editor
August / September 2014

July 30, 2014 by Leave a Comment

The Ireland-U.S. Commission for Educational Exchange recently awarded 61 U.S. citizens the chance to study the Irish language in the Gaeltacht regions of Ireland this summer including places such as Galway, Derry, and Kerry. It marked the first ever group of 20 U.S. secondary school students to receive the Gaeltacht Summer Award, with 41 undergraduate, postgraduate, and … [Read more...] about Awards to U.S. Students to Study Irish Language

The Legacy of Danny Cassidy

By Peter Quinn, Contributor
October /November 2009

October 2, 2009 by Leave a Comment

Our voices carry; and though slumber-bound, Some few half awake… Give tongue, proclaim their hidden name… W.B. Yeats At one point in Quinn’s Book, the fourth novel in William Kennedy’s masterful “Albany Cycle,” a trainload of Famine immigrants passes through Albany. Witnessing this sad procession, narrator Daniel Quinn is told by a companion, “Pay heed to these people and … [Read more...] about The Legacy of Danny Cassidy

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