This autumn you’ll get your chance to spot all the dodgy bits of Irish you see around town, and maybe write your own.
As alluded to […]

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My sources tell me that Irish language classes are under consideration for Kansas City’s Irish Museum & Cultural Center (IMCC).
The IMCC is based in Union […]

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In my post on Fun in America and elsewhere I’ve referred to ‘Craic’ being an English term that was then Gaelicized, and Conor has said […]

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Most Irish people have met several people in the US who are unaware that Irish people speak English. Funnily enough that impression is rarely changed […]

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Saying ‘Happy New Year’ in Irish? Well, it’s not rigid; there are many different ways to wish somebody to have a year ahead that might […]

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We’ve mentioned before that Irish KC is not a continuous narrative, but a ball of wool - Irish of course - you’d be mad to […]

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It’s the day before Halloween, or as I call it, Halloweeneen, and how to pronounce Samhain, the Irish for Hallowe’en, keeps popping up.
If the English […]

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Americans tend to call it ‘Gaelic’. Irish people call it ‘Irish’, or Gaeilge - which is the Irish for ‘Irish’ (language, that is). Or the […]

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So you’re standing in Bridget’s dining room holding a box containing her fiancé’s head.
The damp cardboard gives way and Otto’s head falls out making […]

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Bridget loves you, you’re sure. But she’s getting married to Otto. In eighteen days. You’ve never met Otto, but from his photograph in uniform he […]

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When last we were learning the Irish language, Bridget was with somebody who she possibly should not have been with, it was raining outside, and […]

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Everybody’s Irish ancestors are from Cork. Okay not everybody’s. If your ancestors are not from Cork, then they are from Mayo.
If you don’t believe […]

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So there you are. Just you and Bridget. Although Bridget is strong, she lives with her parents. As things would have it they’ve gone to […]

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Irish Gaelic, or as we call it, Gaeilge, Lesson number 6, has been posted, and teaches you handy phrases like the above Where is the […]

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Is there a big woman in the kitchen is a profoundly philosophical question you can learn the Irish for in the latest Irish language lesson […]

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-What did he die of?
-He died of a Tuesday
Sorry. Tuesday in Irish (Gaelic/Gaeilge) is Dé Máirt. That’s Dé as in Daniel Day Lewis, and Máirt […]

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I must go home now, Bridget. Look, it is almost five o’clock, is a useful phrase if Bridget’s husband is just about to finish his […]

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In the last lesson you learned to say that Bridget is strong, so now you’re ready for Lesson in Gaeilge #3.
This lesson focuses on what […]

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Now that you mastered pronounciation from Irish Lesson #1, you’re ready for Lesson 2 in Gaelic where you make your entry into the Irish language, […]

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The Jackalope over in the other side of Missouri, in St louis, asks if anybody knows how to learn Irish, without having to travel to […]

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