Dia duit a chara! Native Irish speaker here from Belfast. That journalist was probably defensive because she neglects the language herself and probably couldn’t stand the fact that an English man was learning it and she wasn’t. Some are like that. My mums from Doncaster, she met my dad (who is a gaeilgeor) in London and moved back to Belfast with him. My brother and I were both raised speaking Irish and conversed with my father (and his entire side of the family) in Irish. To keep up in their company, my mum became fluent over the years but mostly conversed with us in English. The look on some Irish people’s face when she (a northern English woman) whips out the Irish is hilarious. Quite a few have almost been offended because it shines a light on their own failure to speak it themselves and I’m sure part of it is a sense of shame. I’m sorry that happened to you nonetheless as we aren’t all like that! Certainly not in my house! Tá failte romhat as far as I’m concerned! As for the rest of the video I agree wholeheartedly and if you haven’t already, give Kneecap a listen (and watch their movie). Best thing to happen to the language in years and it fills me with pride it came from Belfast! Tír gan teanga, Tír gan anam!
Unfortunately bud you seem to be making the same mistake as the stupid woman. Just because I was brought up in England and have an English accent doesn't make me English. By that logic any African or Indian can be English or Irish simply by speaking English and living in one of the countries. I'm British, or London Irish if you like. The Celtic peoples have resided in both islands and jumped from both islands since the days of Bru na Boinne and Stonehenge. Officially we both come from the United Kingdom (how's that feel?) I didn't mention my dad, he's from Derry and although not fluent spoke bits of Irish to me when I was a kid. I grew up in London through the troubles. In fact our local pub in Woolwich was blown up by the IRA when I was nine. It was an almighty explosion that had me running into the front room to ask my dad, what was that? A bomb, son, he said. By the way, much of the sectarian divide thing is just part of the divide and conquer control strategy. Not that the boys on the ground in the RA know that. It's great that Kneecap are promoting the Irish language but it must remain free from political sectarianism. Otherwise, next we'll have a loyalist movie and rekindled movement and the whole thing gets silly again. I believe we must have ReUnited Ireland but language promotion must remain separate from political movements. Most of the troubles like all the other wars between European countries are orchestrated so racial Europeans are kept divided. In recent times, it's to keep us at loggerheads while *they usher in multiculturalism, mass immigration and cultural marxism, which will end up replacing us altogther. Go n-éirí leat
@SpeakEasyIrish wow tóg go bóg é a chara. No offence was meant. Although, if it quacks like a duck and walks like a duck bud, I hate to tell you but most will consider you English until corrected. And you’re right we are both technically from the UK except I was born and raised on the island of Ireland lol that does make a difference, culturally. I encourage you to look up the comedian “Black Paddy” or the Irish Olympian - Rhasidat Adeleke. Both just as Irish as anyone. My mums grandparents on both sides were Irish. Both of her parents considered themselves English, as does she. The comparison I drew wasn’t meant as a jab. Regarding Kneecap, unless you know much about Belfast you wouldn’t understand the political themes from their stand point. I disagree entirely, they have freedom of expression and have used it accordingly. Artists are supposed to push the boundaries and walk on the outline. They won’t stoke a loyalist rebellion. In fact, I have loyalist mates who love them. One of them even came with me to their gig last year. Like you said in the video above, what is important is that the language is being used. Every time their songs are played the language becomes a little less “dead”. Ádh mór
@@ruadhanconvery9429 Being born in a barn doesn't make you a donkey. The two negroids you mention can never be Irish. Ireland is a European nation, not an African one. In the same way I don't see caucasians living in Africa as Africans. Race and ethnicity are real. Why are the Jews so successful? It's because even though they didn't keep a homeland they kept united by making their ethnicity a religion. The Irish too are largely a disapora. All those who fled to America to escape the famine are as Irish as my mum and dad. By the way, my DNA says I'm 100% Irish, even more than my dad who like I said comes from Derry. To be honest, I was quite disappointed about that. I would have rather of had some Danish and other European elements but as it turns out I'm a complete potato n*gger lol. Good luck mate, no offense, all the best.
3:33 That's a very good point, most Irish accents in English are highly influenced by the Irish language. And you're quite right that some are starting to fade away, which is because of urban snobbery and mockery towards rural people. indeed, without the language, the country will only disappear into a vast sea of Anglo-American globalism. Whether as 26 counties or 32 counties, its all meaningless as you say if we're just going to ape the culture of the country next door. I do however have to disagree with you on the purists (Patchy, An Loingseach etc), where I think you're a tad misguided. Irish needs to be spoken with Gaelic pronunciation, like a completely different language to English. Speaking Irish as if it were a dialect of English (as some in Ireland do unfortunately) is only bastardising the tongue and turning it into an inevitable pidgin. If I want to learn Spanish, I will mimic and try to adopt the way locals in Madrid speak - I won''t seek to learn from someone who speaks it with a French accent. Why should it be any different in Ireland? That's why the living dialects of the native speakers are the only way model for acquiring the language. There's nothing elitist about them, anyone is free to copy how they speak on Radió na Gaeltachta or TG4. Dazpatreg is an example of someone who did that and has succeeded wonderfully; check out his TH-cam if you haven't already. Beir bua agus beannacht! Áivé Gaedheal :D
Of course the integrity of the Irish language needs to be upheld but that's a debate for the higher echelons of the Irish language community. There is however no excuse and no sense in attacking foreign student learners and Irish people from TRYING to speak and promote the Irish language however they want. This kind of fragility does not exist in other languages. It's a really bad look. The Irish people and institutions really need to get their act together on this. The love must come first. Think of a parent and a child. How the child learns to communicate with language is magical. - I don't really want to mix my Irish language promotion with politics too much but I have to pull you up on calling Globalism 'Anglo-American'. England/Britain and America are also being attacked by the same forces with mass immigration, multiculturalism, feminism, LGBT, BLM etc... All these forces fall under the term 'Cultural Marxism'. You'll notice or should do that it works in tandem with Zionism and it's fairer to say that in the West we're all under ZOG (Zionist Occupied Government). It's not that hard to figure out. Follow the money.... who the propaganda favours. Go n-éirí leat
Dia duit a chara! Native Irish speaker here from Belfast. That journalist was probably defensive because she neglects the language herself and probably couldn’t stand the fact that an English man was learning it and she wasn’t. Some are like that. My mums from Doncaster, she met my dad (who is a gaeilgeor) in London and moved back to Belfast with him. My brother and I were both raised speaking Irish and conversed with my father (and his entire side of the family) in Irish. To keep up in their company, my mum became fluent over the years but mostly conversed with us in English. The look on some Irish people’s face when she (a northern English woman) whips out the Irish is hilarious. Quite a few have almost been offended because it shines a light on their own failure to speak it themselves and I’m sure part of it is a sense of shame. I’m sorry that happened to you nonetheless as we aren’t all like that! Certainly not in my house! Tá failte romhat as far as I’m concerned!
As for the rest of the video I agree wholeheartedly and if you haven’t already, give Kneecap a listen (and watch their movie). Best thing to happen to the language in years and it fills me with pride it came from Belfast!
Tír gan teanga, Tír gan anam!
Unfortunately bud you seem to be making the same mistake as the stupid woman. Just because I was brought up in England and have an English accent doesn't make me English. By that logic any African or Indian can be English or Irish simply by speaking English and living in one of the countries. I'm British, or London Irish if you like. The Celtic peoples have resided in both islands and jumped from both islands since the days of Bru na Boinne and Stonehenge. Officially we both come from the United Kingdom (how's that feel?) I didn't mention my dad, he's from Derry and although not fluent spoke bits of Irish to me when I was a kid. I grew up in London through the troubles. In fact our local pub in Woolwich was blown up by the IRA when I was nine. It was an almighty explosion that had me running into the front room to ask my dad, what was that? A bomb, son, he said. By the way, much of the sectarian divide thing is just part of the divide and conquer control strategy. Not that the boys on the ground in the RA know that.
It's great that Kneecap are promoting the Irish language but it must remain free from political sectarianism. Otherwise, next we'll have a loyalist movie and rekindled movement and the whole thing gets silly again. I believe we must have ReUnited Ireland but language promotion must remain separate from political movements. Most of the troubles like all the other wars between European countries are orchestrated so racial Europeans are kept divided. In recent times, it's to keep us at loggerheads while *they usher in multiculturalism, mass immigration and cultural marxism, which will end up replacing us altogther.
Go n-éirí leat
@SpeakEasyIrish wow tóg go bóg é a chara. No offence was meant. Although, if it quacks like a duck and walks like a duck bud, I hate to tell you but most will consider you English until corrected. And you’re right we are both technically from the UK except I was born and raised on the island of Ireland lol that does make a difference, culturally. I encourage you to look up the comedian “Black Paddy” or the Irish Olympian - Rhasidat Adeleke. Both just as Irish as anyone.
My mums grandparents on both sides were Irish. Both of her parents considered themselves English, as does she. The comparison I drew wasn’t meant as a jab.
Regarding Kneecap, unless you know much about Belfast you wouldn’t understand the political themes from their stand point. I disagree entirely, they have freedom of expression and have used it accordingly. Artists are supposed to push the boundaries and walk on the outline. They won’t stoke a loyalist rebellion. In fact, I have loyalist mates who love them. One of them even came with me to their gig last year. Like you said in the video above, what is important is that the language is being used. Every time their songs are played the language becomes a little less “dead”.
Ádh mór
@@ruadhanconvery9429 Being born in a barn doesn't make you a donkey. The two negroids you mention can never be Irish. Ireland is a European nation, not an African one. In the same way I don't see caucasians living in Africa as Africans. Race and ethnicity are real. Why are the Jews so successful? It's because even though they didn't keep a homeland they kept united by making their ethnicity a religion. The Irish too are largely a disapora. All those who fled to America to escape the famine are as Irish as my mum and dad. By the way, my DNA says I'm 100% Irish, even more than my dad who like I said comes from Derry. To be honest, I was quite disappointed about that. I would have rather of had some Danish and other European elements but as it turns out I'm a complete potato n*gger lol.
Good luck mate, no offense, all the best.
3:33 That's a very good point, most Irish accents in English are highly influenced by the Irish language. And you're quite right that some are starting to fade away, which is because of urban snobbery and mockery towards rural people. indeed, without the language, the country will only disappear into a vast sea of Anglo-American globalism. Whether as 26 counties or 32 counties, its all meaningless as you say if we're just going to ape the culture of the country next door.
I do however have to disagree with you on the purists (Patchy, An Loingseach etc), where I think you're a tad misguided. Irish needs to be spoken with Gaelic pronunciation, like a completely different language to English. Speaking Irish as if it were a dialect of English (as some in Ireland do unfortunately) is only bastardising the tongue and turning it into an inevitable pidgin. If I want to learn Spanish, I will mimic and try to adopt the way locals in Madrid speak - I won''t seek to learn from someone who speaks it with a French accent. Why should it be any different in Ireland? That's why the living dialects of the native speakers are the only way model for acquiring the language. There's nothing elitist about them, anyone is free to copy how they speak on Radió na Gaeltachta or TG4. Dazpatreg is an example of someone who did that and has succeeded wonderfully; check out his TH-cam if you haven't already.
Beir bua agus beannacht! Áivé Gaedheal :D
Of course the integrity of the Irish language needs to be upheld but that's a debate for the higher echelons of the Irish language community. There is however no excuse and no sense in attacking foreign student learners and Irish people from TRYING to speak and promote the Irish language however they want. This kind of fragility does not exist in other languages. It's a really bad look. The Irish people and institutions really need to get their act together on this.
The love must come first. Think of a parent and a child.
How the child learns to communicate with language is magical.
- I don't really want to mix my Irish language promotion with politics too much but I have to pull you up on calling Globalism 'Anglo-American'. England/Britain and America are also being attacked by the same forces with mass immigration, multiculturalism, feminism, LGBT, BLM etc... All these forces fall under the term 'Cultural Marxism'. You'll notice or should do that it works in tandem with Zionism and it's fairer to say that in the West we're all under ZOG (Zionist Occupied Government). It's not that hard to figure out. Follow the money.... who the propaganda favours.
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Go raibh maith agat, Erik. Thanks man.