Member Profile: Brian Smith
Introducing Brian Smith, hailing from Fresno, California. Learning Irish has encouraged him to embrace Irish culture.
Category: Articles
Ailt ó Chomhphobal na Gaeilge / Articles from the online Irish community…
The Bardic Schools and Auraicept na n-Éces
The Bardic Schools were highly developed secular institutions that existed in Ireland in the High Middle Ages.
How Dyslexia Helped Prepare Me for Learning Irish
"If you haven’t experienced growing up with dyslexia it is a lot like feeling like you are a dog in a human body..."
Éamon a Búrc and Irish Folklore
Éamon a Búrc had a massive repertoire of tales from Irish folklore, and he managed to record about 200 of them for the Irish Folklore Commission.
Joe Biden and the ‘Cúpla Focal’
With the visit of US President Joe Biden to Ireland, it’s only fitting that we provide a few basic Irish phrases for his visit! After…
Member Profile: Bairbre Ruiz
Meet Bairbre Ruiz, an Outlander-fan living in New York State, who began to learn Irish online following her interest in Scots Gaelic...
Who Wants to Learn a Dead Language Anyway?
Following on from his first article, An Liúdrámán i Londain, Bart returns with more musings on his Irish language journey… In my spare time I frequent some…
Who was Pádraig S. Dinneen?
Who was Pádraig S. Dinneen, and what's the story behind his pioneering Irish-English dictionary?