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Dublin Irish: August 2014
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Gaelic dialects you might be curious about. Sunday, 17 August 2014. Irish in North Co. Dublin. The baronies of Co. Dublin, 1900. Fingal consists of most of the northernmost five: Balrothery East; Balrothery West; Nethercross; Castleknock and Coolock. Click to zoom. (Source: Wikimedia Commons). Nevertheless, we do have enough evidence to plot a history of Irish in North Co. Dublin. Despite pressure at first from Irish (from which, like the dialect of Forth and Bargy, it borrowed a number of words; see bel...
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Dublin Irish: January 2015
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Gaelic dialects you might be curious about. Thursday, 8 January 2015. Specimens of North Kildare Irish. The baronies of Kildare, 1900. Kill and Laraghbryan are in the baronies of Salt South and Salt North respectively; Cut Bush is in Offaly East. Click to zoom. ( Source: Wikimedia Commons. Irish in North Kildare. Whilst this blog focuses on Irish dialects once spoken in Greater Dublin, dialects of adjacent areas will also be discussed where relevant. The Irish of Kill. Kill (Cill) where some recent Irish...
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Dublin Irish: The 'problem' of Dublin Irish
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Gaelic dialects you might be curious about. Saturday, 19 July 2014. The 'problem' of Dublin Irish. How do you research an unrecorded dialect? Quite simply: with great difficulty. Would then write down how those people spoke using only pen and paper, usually utilising their own phonetic shorthand, frantically copying down extensive passages for hours and days on end. Finnish folklore collector Elias Lönnrot, 1828. Early dialect researchers were folklorists. ( Source: Projekti Lönnrot. Porridge' in Omeath,...
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Dublin Irish: Essential sources for Irish dialect study II: Doegen
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Gaelic dialects you might be curious about. Thursday, 19 February 2015. Essential sources for Irish dialect study II: Doegen. Oileán Thoraí, radharc as Machaire Robhartaigh. (Wikimedia Commons). Doegen: hundreds of recordings of native speakers - online. As mentioned earlier here. We are truly fortunate to have - in the form of the Royal Irish Academy's Doegen Records Web Project. I have noticed, however, that the Doegen Records Web Project website was not designed with comparative dialectological resear...
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Dublin Irish: How exactly did Dublin Irish die out?
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Gaelic dialects you might be curious about. Sunday, 27 July 2014. How exactly did Dublin Irish die out? Dubline' in 1610, map by John Speed. (Source: Wikimedia Commons). At first, the question 'How did local Irish die out in Dublin? The reality is more complex. Firstly, the abandonment of Irish took place only. Once its speakers had been so disempowered, marginalised, denigrated and impoverished - collectively punished - that they in turn associated Irish ( their. Centre of (nominally English-speaking) b...
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Dublin Irish: Wicklow Irish
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Gaelic dialects you might be curious about. Wednesday, 2 December 2015. The baronies of Wicklow, 1900. Click to zoom. (Source: Wikimedia Commons). 10 January 2017 (the sounds of Wicklow Irish, see below). The Irish of Co. Wicklow. I was recently contacted by two correspondents asking about the Gaelic dialects historically spoken in what is now Co. Wicklow. Here, we will take a brief look at the decline of Irish in Wicklow and then discuss some of its key features. How did Irish die out in Wicklow? At O'D...
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Dublin Irish: When was Dublin Irish last spoken - and where?
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Gaelic dialects you might be curious about. Friday, 18 July 2014. When was Dublin Irish last spoken - and where? Source: JP ( Wikimedia Commons. If you ask anyone the question, 'When did native Irish die out in Dublin? This is a well-founded presumption given the general trend of Irish history, but it is incorrect. Well into the twentieth century, providing conditions that helped the survival of a local Irish dialect - although it was, even in its lifetime, very difficult to find. You can read more about...
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Dublin Irish: Essential sources for Irish dialect study
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Gaelic dialects you might be curious about. Wednesday, 23 July 2014. Essential sources for Irish dialect study. What is a dialect continuum? Dialects of Irish spoken in Greater Dublin, and around it, were crucial pieces in an uninterrupted Gaelic jigsaw puzzle extending in a vast Atlantic arc from Co. Cork and its islands in the southwest of Ireland up to part of Caithness in Scotland's northeast. Data collection points from the Survey of the Gaelic Dialects of Scotland. Very many of these date from the ...
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Dublin Irish: Specimens of North Kildare Irish
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Gaelic dialects you might be curious about. Thursday, 8 January 2015. Specimens of North Kildare Irish. The baronies of Kildare, 1900. Kill and Laraghbryan are in the baronies of Salt South and Salt North respectively; Cut Bush is in Offaly East. Click to zoom. ( Source: Wikimedia Commons. Irish in North Kildare. Whilst this blog focuses on Irish dialects once spoken in Greater Dublin, dialects of adjacent areas will also be discussed where relevant. The Irish of Kill. Kill (Cill) where some recent Irish...
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