Irish News: June 18, 2025:

"Kneecap’s Liam O hAinnaidh is expected to request to be allowed to speak in Irish and have an interpreter present at his next court appearance in August."

Reminds me of the time I was in An Spidéal court house. An old fella from one of the islands was in front of the judge for possession of two bottles of poitín. Of course he didn't have 'a word of the English' 😂.

https://www.irishnews.com/news/northern-ireland/kneecaps-mo-chara-expected-to-request-to-speak-in-irish-at-next-court-appearance-KSFNQPEHT5G4BDBYKHVPYKT5SE/

#Gaeilge #Gaeilinn

"Event spotlights Presbyterianism's 'forgotten' Irish language history. Languages, including Irish, are 'a gift of God to communicate and to make connections with people'.

That is according to the Reverend Kyle Paisley, the son of the late First Minister Ian Paisley."

He said his late father would have been "deeply interested" and would have attended."

A welcome move. Thank you Reverend Paisley. 👏👏👏

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c2lzpd1z59ro

#NorthernIreland #Gaeilge #Gaeilinn

Kneecap singing 'Amhrán na Scadán', a sean-nós song. 👏 👏 👏

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DJ6YVM3MYfR/?igsh=OG93enVhbjJrempm

#SeanNós #Kneecap #Gaeilge #Gaeilinn #CeólNahÉireann

@kris_of_pnictogen Yeap:

"The unusual surname Barnacle is derived from the Irish Ó Cadhain, usually anglicised as Coyne, Kyne, or Cohen or Coen. But in Irish, cadhan means 'wild goose', and some families made the translation to Barnacle, after the barnacle goose."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nora_Barnacle

#Gaeilge #Gaeilinn

Mo Ghille Mear (My Gallant Hero) - Choral Scholars of University College Dublin

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mo_Ghile_Mear

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxjvNUNXhkU

#Gaeilge #Gaeilinn #CeólNahÉireann

Lá sa chlaí, a day sheltering from the rain, a workless day.

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"An Irishman tried to learn Irish with Duolingo and it was a disaster..."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKVJRrjsIZQ

Who'd have thought? Personally, I wasted two good years on Duolingo.

"Why not Duolingo [for Irish], and what to use instead?"

https://gaeilgechonamara.com/why-not-duolingo-and-what-to-use-instead/

#Gaeilinn #Gaeilge #Duolingo

Irish letters in Ogham, the old Irish alphabet, are named after trees, which is nice.

Source: @davidstifter.bsky.social

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