Dara Ó Briain - Píosaí Gaeilge / Irish Language Pieces [3 Men Go To Ireland]

[4mckeowns]

the irish language belongs with latin as a distraction for academics rather than shoving it down the throats of school kids. most people in ireland finish 14 years of studying it in school unable to string 2 words together as there is zero opportunities to use it in every day life.

[markyemark1]

made up shite

[saveusmilkboy]

and the opening chords of "shipping up to Boston"...

[1964fagan]

The place at 0.22 is Dún Aengus, a Neolithic fort on Aran Mór, the largest of the Aran Islands off the Connemara coast. Amazing place. Nowhere to retreat to except over the cliffs to your death.

[LexSaratoga]

where is this place on 0:22?

[markyemark1]

The language is dead......get over it

[daprettypiggy]

@markyemark1 How is it dead? A dead language is a language no longer in everyday use and although a majority do not speak it on a day to day basis outside education the fact remains that people do use it for everyday life in places like the Gaeltacht

[ADoyle131]

@markyemark1 Níl sé táim fós ag labhairt Gaeilge chomh maith le mo chlann :)

[cheeriosinabowl]

Cool video!

[sileniscanlain]

I know the girl in the denim jacket in this video!!!! ;)

[wenger1972]

gaelige sounds like such a beautiful language. I just love the rhythm of it.

[TheBoaby08]

whats the song at the end just before the video ends?

[Gettinghitonattheban]

@TheBoaby08

The intro is "shipping out to Boston" by the Dropkick Murphy's.

[sam22ish]

@Gettinghitonattheban outro 

[zorbo77]

Sounds like Dara has very fluent Irish, but his pronunciation sounds very non-native: the dead giveaway is that he uses the same "r" as he uses in English. The woman he is with is clearly a native speaker and has quite beautiful pronunciation.

[Banshun]

@zorbo77 He was raised in an Irish-speaking family.

There are many accents in Irish, too.

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[Isochest]

I have seen a lot of snobbery in respect to Gaelic. Some Welsh teachers in Welsh schools exhibit this. It's not an exclusive club. If you don't welcome people with open arms you will kill the language yourselves with snobbery. What are you? Are you like Zionist fundie Zealots?

[MrMoel1]

@Isochest I'm English and became fluent in Welsh. For your info, intellectuals in my college in carmathen were all over me, it was ordinary Welsh speakers in my village of Nantgaredig who excluded me from their club ttil I was completely fluent

[Isochest]

@MrMoel1 Interesting but still sad. At least the "intellectuals" were seemingly encouraging but it's sad the locals adopted the "Royston Vasey" attitude. My experience with Portuguese, a major language in this world has been one of finding a lot of encouragement from Portuguese locals. They are so used to Brits and other North Europeans living there & not learning a single word. If the Welsh want to preserve their language, they need to be more open and become hosts instead of hostile.

[dazpatreg]

@MrMoel1 Aye it would be the same with Irish with the locals being more insular and not wishing to speak with you until your'e fluent. I suppose the main reason is these languages tend to have survived in remote areas that are insular and it was kind of a secret language to hide from strangers and English antiquarians who liked to 'collect' cultures in a way. The same way you might perhaps use irony on an American! You do have to be dedicated unfortunately...how long did it take to learn welsh?

[cacacacosa]

I'm in love with this man, Could you please transcribe+translate what he's reading at the end? Thank you so much :)

[vikramkrishnan]

I must confess I don't speak Gaeilge but it does sound a lot like the Scandinavian languages. Is there a close connection?

[JVbin]

@vikramkrishnan Mmm... Don't think so. They have two different language roots or precursor languages if you will. Much like you get English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian etc. all from Latin. Irish is in a group from which Scots Gaelic, Welsh, Manx & Cornish are all derived and it's very close to the ancient European civilisation of the Celts who started in Switzerland. I'm probably wrong but I would have thought Scandinavian languages are closer to a more Germanic root though.

[qwertyTRiG]

@JVbin To be really pedantic, Irish, Scots Gaelic, and Manx are Goidelic languages, while Welsh, Cornish, and Breton are Brythonic languages. These are the two branches of the Insular Celtic family, which is one of the branches (the other being Continental Celtic) of the Celtic family. Valencian, from Spain, is a Celtic language.

In Scandinavia, Finnish is the odd one out, being related only to Hungarian. (Those two for an entire family on their own.) The others are, I think, Germanic.

TRiG.

[BirdValiant]

@qwertyTRiG

Valencian is not Celtic. It is a Romance language similar to Catalan. All continental Celtic languages went extinct.

The Celtic languages broke off from the languages that gave rise to both the Germanic and Italic languages around 6,100 years ago. Other than that, there is little connection between Irish and Scandinavian languages. See Gray & Atkinson, Nature, 2003.

More distantly related are, in decreasing relatedness, Balto-Slavic, Indo-Iranian + Albanian, and Greek + Armenian.

[qwertyTRiG]

@BirdValiant I'm pretty sure there is a Celtic language in Valencia, but you're right: it's not called Valencian. Valencian is something else entirely (according to Wiki, some people merely view it as another name for Catalan, or as a variety of Catalan; it's rarely viewed as a language in its own right). And the Celtic language is probably, as you say, dead.

TRiG.

[gloomyoutlook]

@qwertyTRiG

Finnish is very, very distantly, almost coincidentally related to Hungarian, really. However, it is very close to Estonian just down south ;]

[gloomyoutlook]

@JVbin

English, from Latin? Additionally, all the Celtic languages certainly didn't sprout from any single location, rather each branch developed independently over time, thus the diversity.