Comments on: TG4 agus an teanga Gaeilge

By: Hilary Mhic Shuibhne

Hilary Mhic Shuibhne — Fri, 16 Dec 2005 14:16:01 +0000

So where do I start on this journey to rediscover Irish?
You have already started!
It takes quite a long time for most of us who learned Irish originally at school to come to this point, but from there on it is not so hard. There are all sorts of ways to approach it, the best I think is to find a few other people who feel similarly about Irish, you might have nothing else in common at first, (but that in itself is interesting)…and enjoy the journey, it will take you all over the place.
Go n-eirí an t-ádh leat

By: tatiana

tatiana — Tue, 13 Dec 2005 16:30:03 +0000

Sinéad, thanks for the mention; I suggest another survey: “non-native women in Irish blogging” (joke)

By: damian mcnicholl

damian mcnicholl — Tue, 13 Dec 2005 16:22:07 +0000

I hear you when you say most of us had bad Irish teachers. Up in the North, we had a crazy Irish teacher who drove the most peculiar bright blue car in the world which we dubbed the moon buggy (the poor guy had terrible facial postules that we called craters) and I could never get beyond 12% in the tests he set us. unfortunately, not wanting to lower my “O’Level grades, I dropped Irish in favor of German when the time came. Habving said that, some pupils at my school left speaking Irish fluently and had gold faines (pins) to prove it.