Irish Language Sinn Féin election broadcast

[humanity1798]

Seamus O Conghaile oibrithe neamh seicteacha poblachtacha!!!

Sinn fein secicteachas deireadh anois,agus eirionn oibrithe!!!!

[chrisjoneschrisjones]

in regards to scotland ,the true native language of scotland is brythonic which is early /old welsh,scots gaelic came with the irish settlers later on

[oldred1971252071]

im a catholic and i cant understand this shit oh aye i must be a brit catholic and not yet been accepted by the fenian church by being bummed you lost we won hohoho

[Mprator]

Sinn Féin=far left wackjob terrorist sympathizers.

It's too bad there isn't a party in NI for right of center Irish nationalists..

[FearTheIreland]

@Mprator I agree. Sinn Fein sold us out anyways.

[mirsimz]

it sounds something like inbetween Arabic and German? Anyone agree?

[idiomasaur]

@mirsimz I think it sounds a bit more like a mix between Icelandic and German. My mum (who speaks Gaelic) can pronounce things near-perfect in German.

[sinnfeinmurderers]

Vote for GLOBAL terrorists.

And Gerry Adams PEDO party!!!

Like he knew of his brother and father were PEDOS dut he didnt say anything at the time!!!!

Discracefull.

[mischa12]

I love how people are adamant that it is Gaelic not Irish that's like saying " sorry it's not Chinese it's a Asian language" you know?

[idiomasaur]

@mischa12 Yeah you're right. :D If it was just called 'Gaelic' that would mean it'd be the same ass Scotts Gaelic and Manx Gaelic.

[fmercury1980]

The speaker has a pronounced English accent, isn't it?

[kevincostnermyhero]

It's an interesting language. I'm must say that I was ignorant in the fact that I had no idea there was a language such as this. I just thought they spoke English with an Irish accent. Well, at least I'm learning new things!

[Farfrae1]

I love this language, and am all the way in promoting its use in Irish society. Well done Adams!

[sonnydukes]

come on people, its not called speaking irish, its called speaking gaelic....

[GreyWhiteBlue]

Does it really matter. I've heard it being called "gaelic" many times and I've also heard it being called just "Irish" many times as well. It just DOES NOT MATTER. So stop nitpicking and maybe learn the language or something useful like that.

[sonnydukes]

i am a friend to those who are a friend to the irish..but it does matter what the proper name of the language is. in brazil they dont speak brazil,they speak portugese.mexicans dont speak mexican,they speak spanish.

the word Erie which is Irelands official name is gaelic.correcting somone who is wrong is not nitpicking,it is nothing more than the truth, there is soo much wrong info on the internet,that people are being misled,it is the job of the elder generation to teach the younger generation

[GreyWhiteBlue]

I'm sorry. That was rude of me to talk to you that way. But I did live in Ireland for 21 years (grew up there) and I heard people use "irish" just as much as "gaelic". That's all I'm saying.

[sonnydukes]

its all good my friend

[sinnfeinireland]

Irish (Gaeilge) is also known as Irish Gaelic.

Irish, Scots and Manx are all descended from "Old Irish" which.

Irish is a language in it's own right and is recognised as such by the European Union.

[munkstermann]

@sinnfeinireland scots is a germanic language, you're thinking of scottish gaelic

[grabes1980]

@sonnydukes Actually, it is called both. The EU recognizes Irish as an official language in its own right.

[MrIrisheyes71]

@micmac41 So mrmickroach is still spouting shite , the Irish love their US cousins be they 2nd 3rd or 103rd generation and shit 4 brains here hates it. he is a sad loner with mental issues who thinks it’s acceptable behavior to virtually live his entire life on YT videos spouting hostile comments

Its really best not to converse or reply to this hateful deluded fool as it fuels his warped sense of worth, pity him or if you don’t want to do that just laugh at him instead

[micmac41]

@MrIrisheyes71 i hear ya pal..im not angry at all..im learning this language because my grandparents were fluent..from Dingle and Valencia and i lived with them til they passed....i went to U.C. Galway and determined to keep our language alive...and i love u guys as well ...it just amazes me how angry some Irish and english people get at others trying to learn a freakin language.lol..Im an American I love my Country however my 2nd passport is Irish and i love my country there as well..always

[micmac41]

@MrMickroach ur too easy to piss off...have a good day my man and for your own sack...stop being so pissed off about things you have no control over and will never...ever..change...Slan leat

[micmac41]

@MrMickroach ...yes i know ..but its just easy to break your balls..and kinda fun ...i know what the commonwealth is and all that ridiculousness....im bored with this otherwise ..take care....

[redrum12]

@sonnydukes

It actually *IS* called speaking Irish, and it annoys Irish people greatly when Americans refer to it as 'Gaelic'. Asking someone 'Do you speak Gaelic?' is like saying 'Do you speak Indo-European?' since Gaelic is a family of languages.

[SeanOBriain]

@sonnydukes Yes it is. It's called 'Irish' in the English language, and Gaeilge/Gaoluinn/Gaelainn in the Irish language. Gaelic is the branch of languages which includes Irish (Gaeilge), Scottish Gaelic (Gaidhlig) and Manx Gaelic (Gailck). You're obviously not from Ireland :)

[jaffla]

How would that work? 80% of the population in ireland are foreigners.. there live no irish ppl in ireland.

[scoobydubeys]

sorry but were the fuck did you get that satistic i wouldnt even say that 18% of irelands population are foreigners

[sonnydukes]

wow, you pulled that stat out of your ass

[jaffla]

Nope, got 3 friends living in ireland.. look it up.

[sonnydukes]

my grandmother was born there, and spoke it, she is from county cork, i assure you the language is called the gaelic language, not the irish language...FINAL ANSWER!!!!

[nilsialeff]

@jaffla Oh wow!! you have a whole 3 friends lvin gin Ireland? Christ... I belive yo now.

[sebreathnach]

Not only are there no Irish in the real sense of origins, but there is no Ireland either. In antiquity and in the Middle Ages, the island was known as Scotia, and was inhabited by Scoti... Indeed, the Chiefs who wanted Robert Bruce as their King speak of 'Greater' and 'Lesser Scotia'...

[Seamus616]

Cad atá ort, a amadán? Scotti... was the latin word for Irish people. We had our own term. Gaeil nó Éireannaigh in later years.

[sebreathnach]

And why , do you imagine, the Romans called them Scotti??? There was no 'we', apart from the pagan Gaels whom the RCC outlawed as entire 'heretics'. Why don't you read the Statutes of Kilkenny? Most Gaelic , including yours, is English translated into Gaelic ....

[Seamus616]

I dont know what point your trying to make. But you seem to be under the impression Irish was revived. It was contiually spoken on the western coast, it never died out in these areas. the revived Irish in the rest of Ireland are standards based on deep academic study on the language that DID survive in the west.

[sebreathnach]

Small enclaves survived but were always subject to the structured procedures of English-speaking institutions. I don't know what point YOU are making, but it seems to me that the survival , like the revival, is based on the most miniscule of native numbers... And that is my point! A language lost is really lost...

[seamuspowers]

You can revive it though, just need to push it through education. Look at anglo-saxon, old old english, they teach it at universities but it is not easy to speak. Would be cool to learn that and gaelic, would be very difficult to learn either though.

[seamuspowers]

scottish gaelic sounds different, would you say its more anglicized? or norse related possibily?

[sebreathnach]

How easy you changed your tune - from 'concerned linguist' to Gaelic abuser in one breadth. It's so latin, almost Christian brotherish, isn't it? Who on earth is the 'We' you keep referring to????

[Flagstaff12]

baked?

[receipt22]

i think the entire island of ireland should outlaw the use of english in schools and all public insitutions. that would lead to a irish speaking majority in less than 50 years.

[darkostaramoon]

I don't think they should outlaw the speaking of English (especially because many might now know any Irish and thus would be arrested for just communicating). Although Ireland should try and promote the speaking of the Irish language more.

[Connallach]

Note: Gerry Adams is not a native speaker so you can not say you know how Irish sounds because you listened to this video, listen to native Gaeltacht speakers you wont be saying it sounds like English.

His prononciation is just influenced by English thats all.

[Nederbird]

I wonder, considering that Irish has been on the decline for decades before picking up now, how many can speak Irish without an accent?

I just thought that those monolinual English speakers who only learn and who've only learnt Irish since the inception of the Republic would speak some English accented variety of the language. :/

Please enlighten me.

[nekofliks]

The majority of the island used to speak this language but a wholesale shift to English and abandonment of Irish occured . The language that arose was English affected by elements of Irish grammar and pronunciation, called Hiberno-English. Now people learn Irish as a second language. They don't speak Irish with an English accent but with a Hiberno-English accent. Native speakers of language Y speaking language X with influence from language Y influenced by language X.

[Nederbird]

So that's why! Really informative, answered my question perfectly. Thanks a lot! =)

[theRod1995]

Wow What a language! My ancestors only spoke this but I have no clue what they are saying :(. I sometimes wonder should I learn my true language?

[kasapanos2]

sounds like mixed korean, arabic, hebrew and english :)

[Nederbird]

And Dutch. XD

[green14m]

Is there an english version of this video available? This is a bilingual country after all.

[suissmove]

iam not irish

but you have to do somthing 4 the new generation !! otherwayse they wll speack english and english is not the real lunguage for irish

[incasilver]

when will Martin McGuiness admit responsibility for ordering the killing of children deliberately at Warrington in March 1993 to try and discuss the peace process from a position of strength - War Criminals should be tried at the Hague...

[fcpolskaa]

china?

[sebreathnach]

What it means is that a native Pagan cannot teach Gaelic , the First Official language, because he is an atheist -- which is why the RC church suppressed the language , the Druids and Paganism in the first place. The RC church sold Ireland to England (Laudabiliter) on the basis that the English would teach them English and Christianity....

[sebreathnach]

Last year the EU took a legal case against the RCC in Ireland for refusing to allow 'atheists' to teach in 90% of Ireland's schools. Barusso dropped the case in April. So, now, no native pagan can lecture in Gaelic in an Irish school -- all because of Caesar's Messiah's Vicar and Barusso!

[receipt22]

it's so sad that the great irish language is going to die. and it's the british's fault. they have pushed irish out of ireland and colonized it with the english language.

[incasilver]

Get a grip you cretin! it's because the Irish dont care enought about their own heritage to keep their language alive, try taking responsibility instead of that boring old lets blame britain bullshit

[thelostlollipop]

listen here ya bastard. The penal laws where brought in by the Brits in Ireland in the 1780's. These laws may it illegal for the Gaelic people to practice their religion, language, and their traditions and customs. It is a mircle our heritage and customs are so strong today. And tell me, hows that ole brit culture keepin these days? Chavs and knifes a part of it yeah?the BNP Nazis too yeah?

[incasilver]

You might not have noticed but the Creggan, and the Bogside have their share of chavs too. As for the BNP I hate them as much as I hate the provisionals who actually considered themselves an army they are just organised crime, scamming and intimidating their own people for money,thats all it was about for the Provies. tell the families of 3 year old Jonathan Ball and 12 year old Tim Parry killed by an IRA bomb in Warrington in 1993what a courageuous bunch of 'freedom fighters' they are....

[thelostlollipop]

I condemn any violence which results in civilian casualties. However i do not believe that the IRA plants any bomb with the intention of killing 3 0r 12 year old boys or any other civilians for that matter. But the simple fact remains if the Brits had never set foot on our Island in the first place all these deaths would have been avoided.

[incasilver]

Sorry, can't agree, if you dont think people like McGuiness, Twomey,McKee,Macstiofain etc really cared about civilian casualties then you're even more naive than I thought. What you Irish need to understand is that the main stumbling block to uniting Ireland was never Britain it was the fanatic orangemen! NI is where most of the national budget goes, it's funny but the nationalist Irish always make so much of how they hate us but they quite happily take our money.... how many of you on the brew?

[thelostlollipop]

So i take it you agree with my point that if the brits hadnt of stepped foot on irish soil that none of this would ever of happened?? I will also happly let you know that the vast majority of irish nationalists do not receive any money from the british government because the majority of them actually live in the Republic of Ireland. Am sure the nationalist population in Northern Ireland who are receiving benefits will gladly take your money..at least as long as you's are taking their taxes!

[incasilver]

Listen, my personal point of view is that Ireland is entitled to be united and democratically elect it's own government like any other nation and we could debate all day about it, but that I'm not about to do.... I wish the Irish people well, I really do (with the exception of McGuiness and a couple of others whom I would be happy to see burn)however I do get pissed off after a while hearing people blame the British endlessly for the weather, education in Ghana and every other made up reason...

[toberhouse]

To incasilver

I don't think blaming the British for their actions in Ireland is a made up reason. I believe it is called 800 years of occupation, the terror of Cromwell, the Famine, but I might be wrong. After all, all those things might have been made up.

[thelostlollipop]

irish is alive and well.get your head out of your arse and yal see that.

[Sportymike]

This is almost exclusively Ulster Irish.

[25445799]

dude was that english? i couldnt understand a single word

[jackjohn6921]

Sounds somewhat Scandinavian!

[sebreathnach]

Southern Ireland has been free snce 1922. A recent study claimed that not 1,000 families speak Gaelic exclusively. Most of these, indeed, speak English. In my own experience I have found that the language was only used to push a difference between Catholics and Protestants, the Cs believing foolishly that their church was pro-Gaelic....

[bluecherrypie]

Sounds a little like English. Beautiful language.

[gianmerlo]

Ireland great nation, irish great people.

[derekdebilge]

Shame Fein only decided to abandon the armed struggle when the loyalist paramilitaries stepped up their murder rate of catholics.

When will Gerry Adams collect his knighthood from the Queen of England I wonder?

Gerry Adams is a treacherous turd

[Seamus616]

Look at it in the loyalists view,a chara.

Imagine how they feel? They are sharing power with what they once described as "irish terrorists". they surrendered to irish terrorists. thats a huge achievement lad.

[SeanOBriain]

Dún do bhéal. Sinn Féin knew that in order to achieve irish unity, the only viable means is through peace and taking everyone into account.

SF recently secured 6 million in funding for the Irish language and is pressing for Acht na Gaeilge. What are the other groups doing for the language? Infact, where were all the republican groups for the Lisbon treaty? Sinn Féin was the only group to walk door to door. You're well able to criticise SF, but what are you doing instead?

Sinn Féin abú.

[bairen2002]

It's a wonderful unity they'll achieve!

And an even more wonderful independence!

Dublin and Belfast, along with London, have surrendered their sovereignty to Brussels and the EU bureaucrats.

In a few more years, so-called national governments will have less say in running their own affairs than to-day's county councils. They'll organise the street sweeping, the rubbish collection and the public library, and that will be the sum of it.

[slickskillet123]

i believe you are right !

[pnoozi]

It's crazy how two languages (English and Gaelic) can develop side by side geographically yet be so different.

[Seamus616]

no my friend. English developed from German, the foundations were laid for English long before it was spoken in the British isles! :)

[pnoozi]

Ahhh, makes sense

[Spamoy12]

Interesting, both an English and Irish Language version.

[11381337]

Isnt this Irish  native language called Gaelic?

[ilovejohnmc]

The Irish Native Language is called Irish.

Bunreacht Na hÉireann, The Constition of Ireland, Defines the National Official Language as Irish.

"Gaelic" is used to refer to either Irish (as in the Irish for the language: Gaeilge) or the Gaelic Languages, A Branch Of Celtic Languages Including Irish and Scottish Gaelic.

[dawudislam]

and Manx Gaelg!

[SeanOBriain]

Actually, it's gaeilge. Irish is the english term for the language.

[Gaeilgeoir]

Ná bíodh muid ar an nglúin dheiridh de chainteoirí dúchasacha

[rsmexicoyaa]

GOOD MAN GERRY

[adikiny]

Tenacity is the key to Freedom. Has any human being managed to extinguish the hot fire of a volcano? Never! A volcano is its own master. It erupts, cools down, goes to sleep and one day, wakes up again and erupts. I have never heard of anybody colonising a volcano. The Irish Language is therefore as alive as ever because if it disappears then Ireland might as well be called England. Ha! ha! ha! Then the Irish will be licking the feet of Queen Elizabeth II and Kings of England. Peace.

[rsmexicoyaa]

WOULD'NT THE ISLAND OF IRELAND BE A EXTRA SPECTACULAR LOVELY LAND TO LIVE IN IF IT WERE 1LAND=32COUNTIES AND EVERY SOUL SPEAKING THE GAELIC.xXxX

[siojuice]

poo who who

[dannyg271]

Definitely

[bairen2002]

So Ireland should be a unitary state because it is an island?

Can we apply the same argument to the island of Great Britain?

Let's get rid of the Scottish Assembly, and the Welsh assembly.

Oh, and we should get them all to speak only Welsh, as that is the language closest to what was spoken before the Roman invasion.

I include in that all the people of Irish descent who live on the "big island".

Ireland for the Irish, Britain for the British, and all the Paddies can go home!

[TomBarry192I]

Cos majority on the island want to unite it

[boomhehe]

not every1 has to speak irish.. tho yeah i wud like to.. but i wish it was united.

[314zdec]

Is that correct native pronouncing? Does he speak with an English accent?

[Lunoma]

Firstly, Gerry Adams is a fluent speaker of Irish and as he's from Northern Ireland he learnt the Ulster Irish dialect from Donegal. there are three main dialects, Donegal, Connemara and Kerry. And secondly, he doesn't have an English accent he has a Belfast accent which is very different. Hope that cleared things up! Slán agus go raibh maith'ad!

[bairen2002]

Wherever he learnt his Irish, Mr Adams still sounds like a Belfast man speaking in the Belfast manner.

He doesn't sound like someone from Donegal.

jd24717 is quite right.

It sounds like someone speaking Belfast English, only the words are different.

[Lunoma]

I never said he sounded like sb from Donegal but he learnt Ulster Irish which is primarily focused on the dialects still natively spoken in Donegal as there exists a Gaeltacht there. Of course, he gonna sound similar well lets see. The English spoken in Ireland is hiberno-English the dialects of English are influenced byt the accents already in place! not the other way around...

[MidnightFantasy1]

Gerry Adams has the funny manner. All Ulsterman do, My great grandparents, grandparents nd parents both say how they have the funny manner, i never understood what it was until my teacher explaind that diferent societies nd cultures have ways of acting, mannerisms and etc. and since the Ulster had mass migrations of welsh, scottish and english people, their mannerisms interacted.Hence forming the Funny Manner ^_^.lol but i beleive the term is dieing out in the east, still abit alive in the west

[PolTorboid]

so what your saying is, he should put on a bit more of an irish accent? cus hes speaking in the irish tongue?

thats ridiculous. hes from belfast, of course hes gonna speak in a belfast accent.

[hibbeecelt]

Vótáil Sinn Féin.Tiocfaidh ár lá

[urssulas]

it sound lik finnish lol

[Godsgirl41]

Is that what Irish sounds like? Cool, that'll help with the story I'm making about them.

[PatriotsGame]

Up Sinn Fein! i wonder whats there stance on immigration?

[andy7666]

PatriotsGame - they let every bugger in.. They are a Marxist party - they dont care about Ireland, only a bastardised mass of cheap labour from overseas.. Irish culture is going down the drain all thanks to your heros in Sinn Fein!

[beggo321]

We need to get the support of the Irish youth to follow Sinn Fein Polices because they are the future of Ireland and nothing can change that.

[dmurphy64]

Irish America loves Gerry Adams! 26+6=1

[redhandftp]

latest news sinn fein has blocked "free speech" if you leave a message after there video clips and they disagree with you,, you shall be blocked from posting on there clips.

AND THEY SAY THEY ARE A DEMOCRATIC PARTY!!!

[poridicle]

mwell you fecking loayalists do the same fecking thing on your youtube vids, fecking hypocrite hun

[checktheemails]

up ireland!

[eddy6879]

Gerry Adams is such a decent man. We need to support Sinn Fein. We also need to stop watching the False Propaganda in the media.

[jjarvis69]

Whats the point?

Why distance yourself further?

Gaelic!

[mucbarbartha]

Faigh bás,amadán; éist do bhéal agus bain as.

[DanielHungaricus]

It's the first time I hear Irish and it sounds very good and interesting. I would like to visit Ireland once.

Greetings from Hungary!

[qualqui]

Totally COOL!!!! Anybody knows some irish classes on the web?

[AceOfHearts]

excuse me, flamatory remarks regarding other topics have no place on this.

anyway, we've got to keep the irish language alive, both in the republic of ireland and in the north.

[19640316]

and in the world

[ulsternative]

Go han mhaith Pearse.

[adikiny]

Language is the identity of a people. So if it disappears it a whole people that becomes extinct.

[obrien97eire]

Thats true.

[19640316]

dont agreed totally with this idea

most of the irish dont speak irish.and they are as irish one can be.

slan agus slainte.

[mangaire1]

Bhí sé sin go maith

níos fear ná na pairtithe eile ,measaim.