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Padraig MacFheargusa

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

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