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…
How to say “Thank you” and “You’re welcome” in Irish.
When saying “Thank you”, you say “Go raibh maith agat”. The Irish for “You’re welcome” is “Tá fáilte romhat”.
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 …
How to say “Please” in Irish
The phrase for please “Le do thoil”, literally means “with your will”. However, in normal conversation it translates to the English understand…
How to Count Hours in Irish
When counting time from one hour to twelve hours, we say “one hour” as “uair an chloig”, “two hours” is “dhá uair an chloig”...
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).