Ohh how I wish there was an audiobook. The way the words and the essence of our living heritage lands in us when we hear it spoken as apposition to reading it is very different.
I like how Manchán keeps reminding Anthony how important his work is. Don't forget the books you've written Anthony!! You yourself have helped many people break out of the modern mindset and dive back into the imagination of those who came before us. I'm looking forward to the next conversation as the two of you are hugely inspirational figures in Irish cultural life.
I was utterly engrossed in this discussion. My own experiences of Gaelic are with the Scottish variant (I live in the North West Scottish Highlands), and have always been stunned by the variety of meanings Gaelic words and place names can have and indeed ,their ability to connect us to the numinous within our landscape. It’s my birthday in a few days time and have requested Manchán’s book as a present...cannot wait! Thanks to both of you for your much valued contributions in enriching our knowledge of Gaelic language and culture. Beannachd leibh. 🙂
A census of Northumberland and Scotland from the nineteen fifties had a huge amount of Gaelic speakers. Amazing. MY great grandfather came from Glasgow in 1848 Charles McGutherie Guthrie.
I have been so excited reading Mancháns book and relearning geailge that I have had tonpaise this every five mims or rewind cuz my head is in overload. Hes the first person I've come across who really understands the nature of 'keeping the language alive' it has been my interest in relearning and learning the teanga and I am having a baby in December who I want to be raised immersed in it so she can experience her land as it should be. I also am naming her Danu who my father would have introduced me to when I was very young. Honestly so excited right now. And I can feel it coming from a deep deep place in me that has slept to long. Cannot give you gratitude enough for this podcast! Have shared it around aswell, such important messages to be spreading. 🥰💚🧚♂️🍀🇨🇮
I'm absolutely fascinated by so much knowledge shared not only about Irish Mythology, but about the connection with other ancient cultures. Your videos, lives are of extreme cultural, educational value. These are matters that really fill our minds with wonderful knowledge aa well as our souls with joy of all this knowledge and wisdom. I really love to follow your videos, go raibh mile maith agat!!!
This is amazing. I'm being persuaded to learn Sanskrit by the school of philosophy perth which I am part of .....but on hearing this and being Irish and having done leaving cert Irish ...I think I'll see if I can continue that instead. Lots of what I am hearing today from Manchan is similar to Vedic wisdom which is considered the most ancient wisdom ......I am beginning to see how ancient Irish language and culture is ....this is so special Ireland is so special ...2500 years of language 10,000 years of generations ...I can't get my head around it...I live in WA Australia I'm going to find out if I can learn it here ...this is such a revelation for me...go raibh maith agat ☘🙏😷
@@mariabyrne1954 I know what you mean. I have shelves stacked full waiting to be read. I've found that getting books or papers in PDF or electronic book format helps. I can get my computer to read while I'm occupied at other tasks and I can cover a few hundred pages a day.
@@sarad6627 Hi Sarah I have lived and been educated in Ireland for 22 yrs so learned Gaelic Art and history as a subject s at high school.....then lived in England for 10 yrs and I'm now in WA Australia ....Where I'm part of the school of philosophy which studies Vedic philosophy, Sanskrit, nonduality etc....and they always say Sanskrit is the oldest written language and that all religions come from there. but being Irish I've just begun to realize how ancient my own culture is and begun to delve deeper into that... .No Degrees just in Nursing ....just find it all fascinating ...thanks for ypur reply.. Sarah It's a case of you don't realize what you've got till it's gone☘🙏
Just saw this conversation all the way through. It was great! Really interesting. Thanks for this new type of episode. It’s good to change things up once in awhile. Especially since I usually watch/listen when you are offline. Now I have more choices to pick from! ☺️
Fabulous!!! I will listen again. Such a rich conversation. Loved the entire tree series which I only discovered thanks to Mythical Ireland. Now I have more to study! Regarding villages that have been submerged over time long ago: In North America, Indigenous oral traditions of long submerged homelands have been found accurate for up to 10,000 to 12,000 years in the past. Off New England, they’ve been the basis for objecting to offshore wind turbines in culturally sensitive areas.
Apart from Covid, since 2019, 2020 we've been going thru a period of very high solar flares activity and it's expected to continue till 2026. This is having a profound effect on people, pushing us, testing us, an opportunity for raising consciousness but also if not harnessed and channeled healthfully, it can lead to anxiety, stress, illness, anger and poor choices. A very important time to greet strong and healthy to grow from the experience and not only suffer it 🙏
Speaking on the epigenetic inheritance of language, I believe in that wholeheartedly as well as many other inheritances through an epigenetic process. I’m not Irish I am American, but 10 of my 16 second great grandparents came directly from cork, mayo, and waterford. My wife has awoken me at night several times where I’ve been speaking in what she describes as a another language. Upon further description I seems to have been speaking a form of Irish, maybe welsh or Scottish but surely it was not English nor Spanish or Italian which I am fluent. Thank you for the show!
very interesting. for the irish language dialects, i however would call them as follows, as the extinct leinster dialect was a branch of the connaught dialect & originally stretched across the centre of ireland, coast to coast. - ulster - connaught/leinster - munster but the traditional boundaries between the dialects are not the modern provincial boundaries of today, but via much older boundaries via rivers:- - erne & boyne between ulster & connaught/leinster. - shannon & nore between munster & connaught/ leinster.
Great interview. Thanks to both of you. Manchan refers to Queen Maebh as a 'myrhical' figure but the Guides in Rathcroghan believe her to be a real historical figure who is buried there with her husband and not atop Knocknarea. They point out the engraving on the lintel stone at Owneygat which states in Ogham 'here lies Fraoch, son of Maebh'.
🙂 Enjoyed this very much. Many topics would be fun to sit and talk about, too many for here in comments. I recently wrote a poem about the Cailleach of Loughcrew. Would love to share sometime But out of all ,the least would be what can try to share now, which is years ago I have heard of one word (unfortunately don't remember the word) that is the same in Irish as Japanese as far as sounding. It does exist and stuck out at me at the time, your conversation reminded me of that. Like I said so much of much more substance would likely be of interest to conversate about. Maybe in future? ☮️
In New Hampshire close to the Canadian Border, there is the original town 5 miles out of town is at the bottom of the Dam where we a hydro powerplant. Its at the bottom of the Dam. Of happens here in the woods wouldn't dout that may have happened to towns in Ireland.
Just as the linguistist is saying India is now everywhere. So his saying the language and spiritual meaning will spread. As a Tibetan Buddhist I believe in such a view.
We chronically under invest in our culture, we have the lowest state subvention per GDP to the arts in the EU (along with Greece), this despite the particular and peculiar need for us to support our own culture in the face of being sandwiched between two English speaking cultural hegemonies. RTÉ operates on a model of being a scaled down BBC, it's not feasible as the BBC benefits from economies of scale, and it means that RTÉ must also rely on advertising revenue to supplement the licence fee. RTÉ has no interest or drive in seeking out and supporting Irish talent actively, it's a centralised model that warps itself into a knot of nepotism and as such outside talent is an existential threat to the established order. Our public/media space is excessively claimed by the interests of business, where can you go after 6pm in any Irish city, village or town that doesn't involve paying for drinks? People can't afford to live near their place of work and often find themselves having to rise at 5 in the morning to be in work for 8, home at 6pm, dinner and telly, then bed, rinse and repeat, all to pay off mortgages that are three times the size (relative to income) of what their parents would have had to manage. To which God is this sacrifice made? Whose nourishment does this devastation feed? People are having their lives burgled from them for the sake of house prices. For the language to thrive the people must thrive, the culture must thrive, the land must thrive. Anyway wonderful talk thanks
in the USA skim is an action word, you skim the surface, .... we never use that word to mean a covering or a mantle, it's not an object so much, it is an action ... the fish jumped up and skimmed across the top of the water before diving back in.
yes, languages do go deep into the psychological mind, not sure I would go as far as to say epigenetic, I would say politicians dominate language and meanings in order to control and subdue the populace
In Ireland there was awareness of the three dimensions: Ideational: Ideas; Astral: Energy; Physical: elements. Now, especially with atheism there is only knowledge of the physical or matter. There is a movement now called: eliminative materialism; the notion that the only thing that exists is matter; a deification of matter and there is also talk of trans humanism;; humans embedded with technology; the latest horror. It is vital that the totality of what it means to be human fights back against these ideologies which are reductive and ultimately stupid. There is the danger of ideologies rising that are false and seek adherents in people who do not know or understand the totality of what it means to be human. In higher ages it was understood that there are fourteen versions of the human in one universal cycle from an uniquely human prototype, not the disinformation of the Darwinian perspective as evolution from another species which is not only wrong but is stupidly wrong. There are definitely other dimensions; lets fight back against the materialists; the reductionists that seek to capture the narrative and wrongly pass disinformation on to newer generations, leaving them without the true knowledge of what it is, and what it means to be human, leaving them in a desert of meaninglessness, which does not contribute to human flourishing. Three of everything: In Chinese philosophy it was understood; nothing happens without three; as in Christianity; the Godhead being triune: Father, Son, Holy Spirit each playing a role in creation and in the human person. This is a great video, so true, and so necessary to be implemented in how we view ourselves realistically today in opposition to reductionism and the false so-called dark enlighteners, such as Darwin and Freud. Language is important; Sanskrit was the origin of Indo-European languages and its alphabet was based on actual sounds. This is in contrast to the linguists today who act informed but are clueless about the origin of language. Another point: A country without its language is a country without its soul.
It is important not to get myth mixed with the actual. If the mythological is reduced to literalism it ends up sounding and being nonsensical. The two realms should be kept separate; the mythical vs the literal or the actual.
Another point the mythical island of Hy-Brasil that was thought to exist off the West coast of Ireland may be in the Astral dimension. It is thought that the aether that separates the dimensions was more porous in other ages and it was possible and easier to travel between dimensions so maybe Hy-Brazil is not in this physical dimension but in the Astral dimension and it could be still there.
I so wish that there was an audio version of Manchán's book! To hear him speak the words would be a joy!
I agree, I just checked Audible and it’s still not there :(
Ohh how I wish there was an audiobook. The way the words and the essence of our living heritage lands in us when we hear it spoken as apposition to reading it is very different.
I like how Manchán keeps reminding Anthony how important his work is. Don't forget the books you've written Anthony!! You yourself have helped many people break out of the modern mindset and dive back into the imagination of those who came before us. I'm looking forward to the next conversation as the two of you are hugely inspirational figures in Irish cultural life.
I was utterly engrossed in this discussion. My own experiences of Gaelic are with the Scottish variant (I live in the North West Scottish Highlands), and have always been stunned by the variety of meanings Gaelic words and place names can have and indeed ,their ability to connect us to the numinous within our landscape. It’s my birthday in a few days time and have requested Manchán’s book as a present...cannot wait!
Thanks to both of you for your much valued contributions in enriching our knowledge of Gaelic language and culture.
Beannachd leibh. 🙂
A census of Northumberland and Scotland from the nineteen fifties had a huge amount of Gaelic speakers. Amazing. MY great grandfather came from Glasgow in 1848 Charles McGutherie Guthrie.
I have been so excited reading Mancháns book and relearning geailge that I have had tonpaise this every five mims or rewind cuz my head is in overload. Hes the first person I've come across who really understands the nature of 'keeping the language alive' it has been my interest in relearning and learning the teanga and I am having a baby in December who I want to be raised immersed in it so she can experience her land as it should be. I also am naming her Danu who my father would have introduced me to when I was very young. Honestly so excited right now. And I can feel it coming from a deep deep place in me that has slept to long. Cannot give you gratitude enough for this podcast! Have shared it around aswell, such important messages to be spreading. 🥰💚🧚♂️🍀🇨🇮
I'm absolutely fascinated by so much knowledge shared not only about Irish Mythology, but about the connection with other ancient cultures. Your videos, lives are of extreme cultural, educational value. These are matters that really fill our minds with wonderful knowledge aa well as our souls with joy of all this knowledge and wisdom. I really love to follow your videos, go raibh mile maith agat!!!
I love listening to Manchan because he draws his intellect and insight from personal experiences. Magical.
This is amazing. I'm being persuaded to learn Sanskrit by the school of philosophy perth which I am part of .....but on hearing this and being Irish and having done leaving cert Irish ...I think I'll see if I can continue that instead. Lots of what I am hearing today from Manchan is similar to Vedic wisdom which is considered the most ancient wisdom ......I am beginning to see how ancient Irish language and culture is ....this is so special Ireland is so special ...2500 years of language 10,000 years of generations ...I can't get my head around it...I live in WA Australia I'm going to find out if I can learn it here ...this is such a revelation for me...go raibh maith agat ☘🙏😷
Have you read 'The Origins of the World's Mythologies' by E.J. Michael Witzel? You will probably find it deeply moving.
@@sarad6627 thank you for that ...another book on my list
@@mariabyrne1954 I know what you mean. I have shelves stacked full waiting to be read. I've found that getting books or papers in PDF or electronic book format helps. I can get my computer to read while I'm occupied at other tasks and I can cover a few hundred pages a day.
Maria, I meant to ask, have you done Celtic Studies or Indo-European Studies? I'm into both as well as World Religion and love comparative mythology.
@@sarad6627 Hi Sarah
I have lived and been educated in Ireland for 22 yrs so learned Gaelic Art and history as a subject s at high school.....then lived in England for 10 yrs and I'm now in WA Australia ....Where I'm part of the school of philosophy which studies Vedic philosophy, Sanskrit, nonduality etc....and they always say Sanskrit is the oldest written language and that all religions come from there. but being Irish I've just begun to realize how ancient my own culture is and begun to delve deeper into that...
.No Degrees just in Nursing ....just find it all fascinating ...thanks for ypur reply.. Sarah
It's a case of you don't realize what you've got till it's gone☘🙏
Just saw this conversation all the way through. It was great! Really interesting. Thanks for this new type of episode. It’s good to change things up once in awhile. Especially since I usually watch/listen when you are offline. Now I have more choices to pick from! ☺️
Delighted to hear that you enjoyed it Marianne. I hope to continue with this series as long as possible. I have some very interesting guests lined up!
I loved this conversation, Thanks Anthony and Manchan. An audio would be great.
Fabulous!!! I will listen again. Such a rich conversation. Loved the entire tree series which I only discovered thanks to Mythical Ireland. Now I have more to study!
Regarding villages that have been submerged over time long ago: In North America, Indigenous oral traditions of long submerged homelands have been found accurate for up to 10,000 to 12,000 years in the past. Off New England, they’ve been the basis for objecting to offshore wind turbines in culturally sensitive areas.
A beautiful eloquent and insightful discussion, thank you Anthony & Manchån!
Thank you so much, Anthony, for sharing this very interesting video.
Apart from Covid, since 2019, 2020 we've been going thru a period of very high solar flares activity and it's expected to continue till 2026. This is having a profound effect on people, pushing us, testing us, an opportunity for raising consciousness but also if not harnessed and channeled healthfully, it can lead to anxiety, stress, illness, anger and poor choices. A very important time to greet strong and healthy to grow from the experience and not only suffer it 🙏
To get Michael Palen on this channel is phenomenal!
Speaking on the epigenetic inheritance of language, I believe in that wholeheartedly as well as many other inheritances through an epigenetic process. I’m not Irish I am American, but 10 of my 16 second great grandparents came directly from cork, mayo, and waterford. My wife has awoken me at night several times where I’ve been speaking in what she describes as a another language. Upon further description I seems to have been speaking a form of Irish, maybe welsh or Scottish but surely it was not English nor Spanish or Italian which I am fluent. Thank you for the show!
thank you for producing this video anthony.
Cheers for this, and will be putting this book on my list of “must have’s”.
very interesting.
for the irish language dialects, i however would call them as follows, as the extinct leinster dialect was a branch of the connaught dialect & originally stretched across the centre of ireland, coast to coast.
- ulster
- connaught/leinster
- munster
but the traditional boundaries between the dialects are not the modern provincial boundaries of today, but via much older boundaries via rivers:-
- erne & boyne between ulster & connaught/leinster.
- shannon & nore between munster & connaught/ leinster.
So informative!
Great interview. Thanks to both of you. Manchan refers to Queen Maebh as a 'myrhical' figure but the Guides in Rathcroghan believe her to be a real historical figure who is buried there with her husband and not atop Knocknarea. They point out the engraving on the lintel stone at Owneygat which states in Ogham 'here lies Fraoch, son of Maebh'.
🙂
Enjoyed this very much.
Many topics would be fun to sit and talk about, too many for here in comments. I recently wrote a poem about the Cailleach of Loughcrew. Would love to share sometime But out of all ,the least would be what can try to share now, which is years ago I have heard of one word (unfortunately don't remember the word) that is the same in Irish as Japanese as far as sounding. It does exist and stuck out at me at the time, your conversation reminded me of that. Like I said so much of much more substance would likely be of interest to conversate about. Maybe in future? ☮️
Manchan Manchan everything will be OK just stay put DONT JUMP
In New Hampshire close to the Canadian Border, there is the original town 5 miles out of town is at the bottom of the Dam where we a hydro powerplant. Its at the bottom of the Dam. Of happens here in the woods wouldn't dout that may have happened to towns in Ireland.
Just as the linguistist is saying India is now everywhere. So his saying the language and spiritual meaning will spread. As a Tibetan Buddhist I believe in such a view.
We chronically under invest in our culture, we have the lowest state subvention per GDP to the arts in the EU (along with Greece), this despite the particular and peculiar need for us to support our own culture in the face of being sandwiched between two English speaking cultural hegemonies. RTÉ operates on a model of being a scaled down BBC, it's not feasible as the BBC benefits from economies of scale, and it means that RTÉ must also rely on advertising revenue to supplement the licence fee. RTÉ has no interest or drive in seeking out and supporting Irish talent actively, it's a centralised model that warps itself into a knot of nepotism and as such outside talent is an existential threat to the established order. Our public/media space is excessively claimed by the interests of business, where can you go after 6pm in any Irish city, village or town that doesn't involve paying for drinks? People can't afford to live near their place of work and often find themselves having to rise at 5 in the morning to be in work for 8, home at 6pm, dinner and telly, then bed, rinse and repeat, all to pay off mortgages that are three times the size (relative to income) of what their parents would have had to manage. To which God is this sacrifice made? Whose nourishment does this devastation feed? People are having their lives burgled from them for the sake of house prices. For the language to thrive the people must thrive, the culture must thrive, the land must thrive.
Anyway wonderful talk thanks
I'm 3rd generation Irish and my great-grandparents did not teach their kids Irish because they said they were in America now. If only they did...
I read that
Two type of Ireland languages one Welsh am another fr Irish. Will be able to the study?🍀🍀. My grandson find a 🍀just the other day.
in the USA skim is an action word, you skim the surface, .... we never use that word to mean a covering or a mantle, it's not an object so much, it is an action ... the fish jumped up and skimmed across the top of the water before diving back in.
cailleach 🧙
Bandia 🙏🏻👸
yes, languages do go deep into the psychological mind, not sure I would go as far as to say epigenetic, I would say politicians dominate language and meanings in order to control and subdue the populace
Poor guy. Off down the new age road pathed with lies …did it myself. I thank the Lord Jesus Christ for saving me.
In Ireland there was awareness of the three dimensions: Ideational: Ideas; Astral: Energy; Physical: elements. Now, especially with atheism there is only knowledge of the physical or matter. There is a movement now called: eliminative materialism; the notion that the only thing that exists is matter; a deification of matter and there is also talk of trans humanism;; humans embedded with technology; the latest horror.
It is vital that the totality of what it means to be human fights back against these ideologies which are reductive and ultimately stupid. There is the danger of ideologies rising that are false and seek adherents in people who do not know or understand the totality of what it means to be human. In higher ages it was understood that there are fourteen versions of the human in one universal cycle from an uniquely human prototype, not the disinformation of the Darwinian perspective as evolution from another species which is not only wrong but is stupidly wrong.
There are definitely other dimensions; lets fight back against the materialists; the reductionists that seek to capture the narrative and wrongly pass disinformation on to newer generations, leaving them without the true knowledge of what it is, and what it means to be human, leaving them in a desert of meaninglessness, which does not contribute to human flourishing.
Three of everything: In Chinese philosophy it was understood; nothing happens without three; as in Christianity; the Godhead being triune: Father, Son, Holy Spirit each playing a role in creation and in the human person.
This is a great video, so true, and so necessary to be implemented in how we view ourselves realistically today in opposition to reductionism and the false so-called dark enlighteners, such as Darwin and Freud.
Language is important; Sanskrit was the origin of Indo-European languages and its alphabet was based on actual sounds. This is in contrast to the linguists today who act informed but are clueless about the origin of language.
Another point: A country without its language is a country without its soul.
It is important not to get myth mixed with the actual. If the mythological is reduced to literalism it ends up sounding and being nonsensical. The two realms should be kept separate; the mythical vs the literal or the actual.
Another point the mythical island of Hy-Brasil that was thought to exist off the West coast of Ireland may be in the Astral dimension. It is thought that the aether that separates the dimensions was more porous in other ages and it was possible and easier to travel between dimensions so maybe Hy-Brazil is not in this physical dimension but in the Astral dimension and it could be still there.
A country without its language is a country without its soul.