Poems in Irish by Colin Ryan. Continue reading
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Ceo Bruithne agus scéalta eile by Colin Ryan
Ceo Bruithne agus scéalta eile (Heat Haze and other stories) Book Review by Dymphna Lonergan Colin Ryan Ceo Bruithne agus scéalta eile. Cló Iar-Chonnacht 2019. 100 pp. ISBN: 978 1 7844 203 3 RRP: €10 A heat haze, according to Wikipedia, is ‘a shimmering of the air near the ground that distorts distant views’. ‘Ceo Bruithne’ is … Continue reading
Global Irish Words
By Dymphna Lonergan Thanks to the increased availability of digitally uploaded word lists and dictionaries, research into how far the Irish language has travelled globally has been made much easier. It is interesting that individual Irish language words have found new homes in Global English dialects. It is doubly interesting to see these words’ meanings extended … Continue reading
three poems by Colin Ryan
Irish Language poems by Colin Ryan Continue reading
Irish on the Moon
Irish language message left on the moon in 1969. Continue reading
Sydney Winter School 2019: Sunburnt Irish Symposium
The Sunburnt Symposium is now part of the Australian daonscoileanna, the summer and winter Irish language intensives and also featured in some Australasian Irish Studies conferences. Continue reading
Daughters remember Barney Devlin
Tributes from his daughters for Barney Devlin, journalist, teacher, lover of the Irish language. Continue reading
Anders Ahlqvist (1945-2018), scholar of the Irish Language
Anders Ahlqvist argued that the Celts had an effect on the English language, an opinion not shared by others. Continue reading
Barney Devlin: tribute to a friend and teacher
Barney’s personal abilities, charm, compassion and wit have impacted all of us who knew him Continue reading
Irish Language Writers
How many writers are writing in Irish? The answer is surprising…. Continue reading
