Where do Irish Placenames Come From?
"The early surveyors of Ireland may have distorted our local placenames, but they nonetheless capture much local and family history."
Category: Articles
Ailt ó Chomhphobal na Gaeilge / Articles from the online Irish community…
Irish, Me and Angelina Jolie
"With the help of my Irish teacher and some music videos, I broke the monotony of a flight to New York, and ended up chatting with Angelina Jolie, int…
Decolonize Your Hearts!
"Our forebears knew the importance of their local environment and that we are ‘fite fuaite’ (interwoven) with the land. Language and land are i…
Member Profile: Ani Kazancioglu
"My adventure with learning Irish began last year. I loved it right from the beginning and I look forward to continuing! As a student from Turkey, I f…
Learning Irish in America: Discovering the language of my Great Grandparents
"I knew people who’d learned German and Italian and Spanish from their grandparents. Why were we not allowed to learn Irish?"
The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis and ‘An Bata Scóir’
Current attitudes to the Irish language can be shown to clearly be the consequence of the success, and extreme brutality, of the English colonization …
Irish Placenames: Tír, Gleann, Lios, Ráth, Loch
In this article, we will look at examples of places using the terms Tír (land), Gleann (valley), Lios (ringfort), Ráth (ringfort) and Loch (lake).
Member Profile: Irene Kistler
"I learn Irish in honor of my great-grandmother, Agnes. She spoke Irish by birth, English by force and Yiddish by necessity. I honor her bravery by re…