Gaeltacht or Gaedhealtacht is an Irish-language word used to denote any primarily Irish-speaking region.
..anybody who works in the English language in Ireland, knows that there's the dead ghost of Gaelic in the language we use and listen to, and that those things will reflect our Irish identity. |
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A little about ourselves
An early form of the Irish language was brought to bronze age Ireland and Britain by the iron age Celts, who inhabited Central Europe some three thousand years ago. The Celtic languages, which are a branch of the an "Indo-European" family of languages consist of the Continental Celtic languages, consisting of Celtiberian, Gaulish, and Galatian, and the Insular Celtic languages of the British Isles. This Insular group is further divided into the Brythonic group, consisting of Cumbrian, Welsh, Cornish, and Breton of which only Welsh and Breton have survived into modern times, and the Gaidhdelic group of Scots Gaelic, Manx Gaelic, and Irish Gaelic, known in Ireland simply as Irish.
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Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill is one of the most prominent poets writing in the Irish Gaelic language today. Her poetry has been translated into English by a number of well-known Irish poets, including Seamus Heaney, Medbh McGuckian, and Paul Muldoon. Irish themes, including language, are central to her poetry and range from ancient myths to small details of contemporary life. |
Students in Dublin hold up an Irish language badge that they designed to encourage young people to speak Irish, the national language. |
Phonetics and Speech Laboratory
School of Linguistic, Speech and Communication Sciences Trinity College |
Irish Poetry at Emory
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Irish poet Joan McBreen gives a public reading at the Woodruff Library on the Emory University campus. The reading was followed by a reception to celebrate the completed processing of McBreen's papers, which she placed with the Emory Libraries' Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library (MARBL) in 2008. McBreen's papers join MARBL's rich collection of Irish literary works, dubbed an "Irish literary village" by Irish poet Eamon Grennan, who placed his papers with the library in spring 2009. MARBL's collection also includes the works and/or papers of W.B. Yeats, Seamus Heaney, Derek Mahon and Paul Muldoon.
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Puzzle I do not know why I am writing in English a second language a wave where spaces open into a void and you just need to jump off a cliff A language where approximate sounds suggest what I would like to say A language with blanks —like in a test-- which my memory will fill sometime in the future – Myrna Nieves |