Thursday, January 8, 2009

Ag Foghlaim leis podchraoltaí as Gaeilge (& Breatnaise bheag)
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Fuair mé paimfléad ó Oideas Gael ar an post inniu. Ba mhaith liom ag filleadh ar ais Gleann Cholm Cille ansuid aríst ar feadh an seachtaine...

Siuán Ní Mhaonaigh & Antain Mac Lochlainn's "Speaking Irish": Book Review

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Having studied at Oideas Gael, in Donegal, one of the places featured here, I was excited to find, the year after my course, the arrival of ...
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Wednesday, January 7, 2009

Red Flag's Banner Year: 1831?

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Making my slow but pleasant way through Emyr Humphreys' literary history of what he calls "The Taleisin Tradition," a sentence...
Tuesday, January 6, 2009

Ag Filleadh go Bhreatain Bheag

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Scríobh mé bliain ó shin faoi ag foghlaim mír Breatnaise. Anois, tá sé aon bliain go deireanach go díreach agus tá mé ag scríobh fúithi arís...
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Monday, January 5, 2009

May, Moore & Lintott's "Bang! The Complete History of the Universe": Book Review

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A while back, I read a short interview with Brian May; he described in understandable and interesting terms his long-delayed (for understand...
Sunday, January 4, 2009

Internet Irish Radio, Éamon Carr & "Breakfast on Pluto."

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I received a note-- and spreadsheet-- of CDs that my friend up in San Francisco Lee Templeton's culling from her discs played on her Int...
Saturday, January 3, 2009

Dafydd ap Gwilym: Poems (ed./tr. Rachel Bromwich): Book Review

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Alexander Theroux in a recent L.A. Times critique of Burton Raffel's unnecessary rendering of Chaucer into contemporary English reminde...
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Thursday, January 1, 2009

Gluaiseacht ó dheas

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Fhilleamar ár theaglach ar bhaile againn ar an lá Chinn Bhliana. D'fhágamar go déanach sa lá. Chaitheamar a ní an teach go maith. Níor i...

Leaving the Forest

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I walked two days before yesterday across the closed-off stretch of the road, washed out by a great storm in the '60s. It ended near whe...
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Tuesday, December 30, 2008

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Richard North & Joe Allard (eds.) "Beowulf & Other Stories": Book Review . I learned Old English from a professor who revi...
Monday, December 29, 2008

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Hugo Hamilton's "Disguise": Book Review . How we shape our identity, and how we inherit our instability, marked Hamilton's...
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Sunday, December 28, 2008

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An sé ag sneachta anois? Tá sé ag sneachta áiteannaí go leor anois. Chuala mé go bhfuil stoirmeachaí bhaísti ann ar fud ar tíre. Ar ndóigh, ...
Saturday, December 27, 2008

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Dublin's Irish Pub: an Israeli Chain! Searching images for yesterday's entry in the admittedly limited keyword combinations of image...
Friday, December 26, 2008

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Contrasting Hebrew & Gaelic Revivals. In Lazarus Tongues in Israel & Ireland," the language columnist "Philologos" s...
Thursday, December 25, 2008

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Shona Nollaig Daoibh i 2008! Tá mé leis mo theaglach ag dul ar gcathair Naomh Prónsias inniu agus ina dhiadh sin in aice leis ar bhaile An C...