Cork Irish

June 30, 2010

Séadna 8

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CAIBIDIOL A HOCHT
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Forcing the Roman script on Gaelic Ireland

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Some people have told me that native speakers of Irish all accepted the script and spelling change in the 1940s and 1950s. And yet, there was this post in 2007 on the GAEILGE B mailing list, by someone in the Donegal Gaeltacht in Tory Island:

Is anyone here acquainted with the pre-1946 form of Irish orthography? I
have been approached for help in determining the final form of the
inscription of the heasdstone of a native speaker of Irish who never really
accepted the reform. The trouble is, he didn’t write down what he wanted and
his family are familiar only with the new.

This is what we have so far –

I ndíl chuimhne ar Sheamas MacRuaidhrí S. [a patronymic] – Baile Thiar – a
fuair bás x-xx-xxxx – in aois 93 bliadhna – agus a dhearthair – Ruaidhrí
MacRuaidhrí – a fuair bás xx-x-xxxx

Solas na bhflaitheas dá n-anamacha

The h-seimhiú will go in the printed out version to be replaced by the
traditional superscripted dot. If I may beg the indulgence of any willing
helpers, please, check the fadas, too. I am particularly unsure of the last
one over ‘dá’.

Incidentally, there isn’t a hope of me passing off any help offered as my
own work; no one would believe that for a second!

In a subsequent post, it was explained that the man in question was the best Irish speaker on Tory Island in the Donegal Gaeltacht (Gaedhealtacht).

June 27, 2010

Séadna 7

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CAIBIDIOL A SEACHT
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June 23, 2010

Séadna 6

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CAIBIDIOL A SÉ
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June 22, 2010

Séadna 5

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CAIBIDIOL A CÚIG
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June 19, 2010

Séadna

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I am now uploading Séadna, the famous novel written by Peadar Ua Laoghaire, chapter by chapter, with grammatical notes. The vocabulary is being progressively entered in my Dictionary of Cork Irish.

Séadna 4

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CAIBIDIOL A CEATHAIR
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June 17, 2010

Séadna 3

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CAIBIDIOL A TRÍ
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June 15, 2010

The Saville Inquiry: a perversion of the concept of justice

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There is plenty that could be said on the history of the British in Ireland. We don’t live in a pre-Enlightenment Age and see no reason to “doctor” the facts of history: we must face up to a “warts and all” form of history that aims to tell the truth, without trying to install ourselves on some kind of pedestal where we could do and did no wrong.
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June 3, 2010

Séadna 2

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CAIBIDIOL A DÓ
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