This is 5 years ago. I feel there is a revival of Irish going on. A few weeks ago Irish speakers filled the streets of Belfast men and women and children from all over the region. There are immersion irish schools all over the north. Through the internet people are learning irish all over the world from China to Chile. I’m glad you recorded all these native speakers as we need them as our role models. This is a wonderful documentary on the changing life in Galway.
If anyone lives in the Seattle area I have an Irish group that meets at the Shawn O'Donnells in Fremont at 6 on Sundays. Please come join us. There is no reason why Irish Americans cannot speak Irish. We can make the langauge practical for us even in America.
It's very interesting to hear this history. When I am old it will all be forgotten and Ireland will just be America with a different accent. In Ireland people know about their Gaeltacht areas but here in Scotland many people don't know where the Gaidhealtachd is, or even don't know it exists at all.
Possibly Background, but I hope you are wrong. The main Gaeltachts have been declining there's no doubt about that. They leave for work. The areas get swamped by English speaking people. The schools are forced to accommodate the English speaking students who come to outnumber the Irish speaking ones. And even when schools are teaching through Irish, sometimes there aren't enough native speaking teachers in the locality to fill the positions and they have to bring in teachers who are not native speakers and might not have the phonetics of the language or indeed might only be familiar with the standard and not the local dialect. There are huge challenges facing the survival of the language. Urban Irish is not yet a viable replacement for traditional Irish as it's speakers tend not to have the phonetics, idiom or even grammar of the language yet, even if they are fluent in the hybrid language which they speak. Our government must implement all of the recommendations of Údarás na Gaeltachta, because the current situation is that if the Gaeltachts don't survive then the language won't, regardless of how many people are made to study it in school.
When you say that urban Irish is not yet a viable replacement, what do you mean? I think the revival of Irish in the cities is essentially a separate project from its revival in the Gaeltacht - urban Irish is not meant to replace Gaeltacht Irish, it's meant to replace English. Addressing the decline of the dialects in the Gaeltachtaí and all of the issues you brought up is indeed of great importance, but the one doesn't really impact the other, does it? I mean, urban Irish speakers will not really be affected by how the language fares in the Gaeltacht. Making Irish more widely spoken in the cities is an end in and of itself quite apart from the survival of Gaeltacht Irish. To the extent that pursuit of the two goals can be mutually beneficial, great, but the distinction between then does need to be drawn.
@@aduantas But we're not 'creating' anything, that's just how it's developing, and berating people for not sounding like they're from the Gaeltacht (when they're not) doesn't help them learn Irish, it puts them off it altogether. Irish, like any language, has different registers of language used for different types of situations. If you want some future where two Dubliners are chatting away to each other in thick Kerry Irish or something, that's never going to happen. I agree that people should learn to write Irish well using a literary standard based on a familiarity with the great works of Irish literature, and I think the traditional dialects of the Gaeltachtaí should be preserved as best as possible in their traditional regions, but Dublin for example doesn't have an extant dialect of Irish, how would transporting a dialect from elsewhere be more 'authentic' for them? The English-influenced Irish spoken there IS authentic, because it's authentically evolving there in real time. I agree that anyone who learns Irish needs to learn to understand all of the dialects passively, but that doesn't mean they need to actively speak that way. If you speak Kerry Irish, you still need to understand someone from Donegal, or Galway, or yes even Dublin, same applies for everyone. "In a sense it's not really replacing it" well yeah, it is actually. If you think that Irish is going to get out of 800 years of English domination without any Anglicisms, you're mad. Indeed there are plenty of them in native Irish that have been yhere for hundreds of years already.
@@aduantas If it's a foreign language then why would they have any interest in learning it? No other language is taught in such a way that a perfect native accent is a requirement of all learners, and in fact it is exceedingly rare that people learn a language to that degree. And we are not talking about a difference to the extent that people can't understand one another - or rather, where that is the case, I agree that it is as kuch of a problem as you claim, but I disagree that that is the extent of the issue for most.
@@aduantas That's absurd. If they claim they literally don't understand what urban speakers are saying, they are exaggerating in order to belabour the point.
@@Whelknarge The survival of Irish in the cities is the very same thing as its survival in the rural areas. My cousins from Dublin have a second home in an entirely Irish-speaking hamlet in West Galway. If they were like most of the others in their position, they'd expect all the locals to speak English for them and the community language would soon die. But thankfully, they speak fluent Irish and made an effort to integrate into the community there. The local kids speak Irish, and the kids of my cousins also learned it to some extent from playing with them, so Irish will survive there for another generation. That was only possible because my cousins were educated in a good school where the language was well-taught, and they felt motivated to learn it properly. We really ought to ban anyone who doesn't speak Irish from moving to a Gaeltachd area. If the community dies out then so be it. But there are plenty of other places for monolinguals to move to.
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Iam Welsh and its great to hear another celtic language being spoken especially Irish much respect to all celtic nations
This is 5 years ago. I feel there is a revival of Irish going on. A few weeks ago Irish speakers filled the streets of Belfast men and women and children from all over the region. There are immersion irish schools all over the north. Through the internet people are learning irish all over the world from China to Chile. I’m glad you recorded all these native speakers as we need them as our role models. This is a wonderful documentary on the changing life in Galway.
hopefully it continues, and we definitely need preservation of the language through as many formats as possible
My late mother's paternal line is Irish. I am currently studying the language of my ancestors. I am Australian.
Agus ghaidhlig Ann Alba,latha math do fhein Uabhasach innteach
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So important to preserve the language and culture!! Great program!!❤️
Anwesome document. Irish culture history is important . Greetings from Brazil
This was wonderful to watch! So well researched and I loved seeing the old photos and the modern views of the same place. Well done!
If anyone lives in the Seattle area I have an Irish group that meets at the Shawn O'Donnells in Fremont at 6 on Sundays. Please come join us. There is no reason why Irish Americans cannot speak Irish. We can make the langauge practical for us even in America.
It's very interesting to hear this history. When I am old it will all be forgotten and Ireland will just be America with a different accent. In Ireland people know about their Gaeltacht areas but here in Scotland many people don't know where the Gaidhealtachd is, or even don't know it exists at all.
The Western Isles in Scotland are very well known actually.
I love Irish!
Possibly Background, but I hope you are wrong. The main Gaeltachts have been declining there's no doubt about that.
They leave for work. The areas get swamped by English speaking people. The schools are forced to accommodate the English speaking students who come to outnumber the Irish speaking ones. And even when schools are teaching through Irish, sometimes there aren't enough native speaking teachers in the locality to fill the positions and they have to bring in teachers who are not native speakers and might not have the phonetics of the language or indeed might only be familiar with the standard and not the local dialect.
There are huge challenges facing the survival of the language. Urban Irish is not yet a viable replacement for traditional Irish as it's speakers tend not to have the phonetics, idiom or even grammar of the language yet, even if they are fluent in the hybrid language which they speak.
Our government must implement all of the recommendations of Údarás na Gaeltachta, because the current situation is that if the Gaeltachts don't survive then the language won't, regardless of how many people are made to study it in school.
When you say that urban Irish is not yet a viable replacement, what do you mean? I think the revival of Irish in the cities is essentially a separate project from its revival in the Gaeltacht - urban Irish is not meant to replace Gaeltacht Irish, it's meant to replace English. Addressing the decline of the dialects in the Gaeltachtaí and all of the issues you brought up is indeed of great importance, but the one doesn't really impact the other, does it? I mean, urban Irish speakers will not really be affected by how the language fares in the Gaeltacht. Making Irish more widely spoken in the cities is an end in and of itself quite apart from the survival of Gaeltacht Irish. To the extent that pursuit of the two goals can be mutually beneficial, great, but the distinction between then does need to be drawn.
@@aduantas But we're not 'creating' anything, that's just how it's developing, and berating people for not sounding like they're from the Gaeltacht (when they're not) doesn't help them learn Irish, it puts them off it altogether. Irish, like any language, has different registers of language used for different types of situations. If you want some future where two Dubliners are chatting away to each other in thick Kerry Irish or something, that's never going to happen. I agree that people should learn to write Irish well using a literary standard based on a familiarity with the great works of Irish literature, and I think the traditional dialects of the Gaeltachtaí should be preserved as best as possible in their traditional regions, but Dublin for example doesn't have an extant dialect of Irish, how would transporting a dialect from elsewhere be more 'authentic' for them? The English-influenced Irish spoken there IS authentic, because it's authentically evolving there in real time.
I agree that anyone who learns Irish needs to learn to understand all of the dialects passively, but that doesn't mean they need to actively speak that way. If you speak Kerry Irish, you still need to understand someone from Donegal, or Galway, or yes even Dublin, same applies for everyone.
"In a sense it's not really replacing it" well yeah, it is actually. If you think that Irish is going to get out of 800 years of English domination without any Anglicisms, you're mad. Indeed there are plenty of them in native Irish that have been yhere for hundreds of years already.
@@aduantas If it's a foreign language then why would they have any interest in learning it? No other language is taught in such a way that a perfect native accent is a requirement of all learners, and in fact it is exceedingly rare that people learn a language to that degree. And we are not talking about a difference to the extent that people can't understand one another - or rather, where that is the case, I agree that it is as kuch of a problem as you claim, but I disagree that that is the extent of the issue for most.
@@aduantas That's absurd. If they claim they literally don't understand what urban speakers are saying, they are exaggerating in order to belabour the point.
@@Whelknarge The survival of Irish in the cities is the very same thing as its survival in the rural areas. My cousins from Dublin have a second home in an entirely Irish-speaking hamlet in West Galway. If they were like most of the others in their position, they'd expect all the locals to speak English for them and the community language would soon die. But thankfully, they speak fluent Irish and made an effort to integrate into the community there. The local kids speak Irish, and the kids of my cousins also learned it to some extent from playing with them, so Irish will survive there for another generation. That was only possible because my cousins were educated in a good school where the language was well-taught, and they felt motivated to learn it properly.
We really ought to ban anyone who doesn't speak Irish from moving to a Gaeltachd area. If the community dies out then so be it. But there are plenty of other places for monolinguals to move to.
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What's the name of the introduction music?
Can you tell me is Aurelia an Irish girl's name ? It's such a beautiful sounding name I'm not quite sure how I thought of it
No don't think so ,i mean they are probably girls called that in ireland but not necessarily an irish name.Sounds more latin
Sorry, it’s not unfortunately!
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