I heard that the Spanish armada stopped in Ireland and mixed with the people, is that why you're so dark? Sorry if this offends you, I'm a redhead Sicilian, so I have an idea about getting this question a lot
@shaunaSKITTLES I apologize if I gave that impression. What I meant is that because it's part of your own history you may not be able to see where I'm coming from. Throughout history Christianity as a whole has done everything possiblebto wipe out anything remotely pagan so to see two groups of them pitted against each other over a pagan language was incredibly ironic to me.
It's not really over where the language came from, but the reason where there are Protestants in Ireland to begin with were due to the plantations which was a ploy to overtake wipe put the Irish language, hence why we all speak English now! So it's not really to do with the religion at all but the fact that most of them came from England during that time!
And yes us Irish are aware that it is a celtic language :)
I understand the bad blood between the English and Irish and why there is resentment there. My point was from an outsider's point of view. Regarding the language itself and this video, there were arguments among two Christian religious views about a language that is pagan in origin. You don't find that the least bit amusing? I suppose it may not be so funny to someone in the thick of it. I know it's close to home for you being an Irish native.
@sica3820 Hmm you seem to be under the impression that all this prejudice against protestants is happening all over Ireland all the time? Well it's not, so I'm not in the thick of anything really :L Sure Irish had it's pagan roots but so did everything, Christ wasn't around at the time of it's origins so it doesn't really matter if it's pagan or not.
@sica3820 Hmm you seem to be under the impression that all this prejudice against protestants is happening all over Ireland all the time? Well it's not, so I'm not in the thick of anything really :L Sure Irish had it's pagan roots but so did everything, Christ wasn't around at the time of it's origins so it doesn't really matter if it's pagan or not.
I was fascinated listening to you speak in Irish. I'm American and it's a completely foreign language to my untrained ears but interesting nonetheless. I was reading through your comments and I just have to point out something I found amusing regarding the debate over Catholic and Protestant speakers of the language. People do realize it's a Celtic language, right? Christians fighting over a pagan language! lol!!
@sica3820 its not a celtic language its a gaelic language, it was thought before that irish people are descended from celts but its not true we were Gaels ! not celts
Thank you for trying to correct me on the origins of the language. It made me go look it up out of curiosity and what I found out was that it is indeed a Celtic language as the Gaels were a Celtic tribe. We were both correct. All Gaels are Celtic but not all Celts are Gaelic.
if the article comes after after le, it has to be leis. you can't say "le an." you said "le an ceol" so it should be "leis an ceol." just looking out. fair play for doing this
I havent been to Ireland. I was born in Boston. All my grandparents come from Ireland and I have no other friendly exposure to the the language. Thanks for the post and the scholarly debate.
It sounds like a great language. Is it fun to speak?
hey its me again i was just wondering and i know im right avbout this my last name is shine and you could look it up to even prove i have alot of irish in me and i have about 7 or 8 generations of family/ancestors back then that fought in the irish war and one of them were the king of mayo there and i am about 67% irish i think also even though my name and all that is in the historical book of irish names/familys and even though i dont have an irish accent ppl say im not irish i just wasnt there
what? I had 3 responses before... I think one was German, one was Danish and something else.... where'd they go... shame maybe the people removed the vids from their channels... shame.. ah well, it was a few years back now I guess... but yeah any new responses still always welcome
Yeah it was a while back I 'spose. I love languages, I speak like 5 useless phrases in several languages :D I need to actually bother to learn a full language one day, I'm just struggling with german at the moment. :D
there are names that I have no idea how to pronounce. You've got names like Bun nAhaben, or first names like Owen that english soldiers pronounce Roland to make it comical. I dont see how you see any ressemblence with Owen and Roland. Can you please help me pronounce those?
tá gaeilge fuckin uafásach agat!! tá sé ar nós gur fhoghlaim tú é ó fuckin squirrel i lár contae ros comain ye fuckin mong!!!!! ó a dhiabhail tá brón orm ach díreach cuireann do blas isteach orm go mór...... AND YE WOULDN@T GET A NOTE IN A FUCKIN BANK!!!merry christmas!!
he is a bad representation of good people. im protestant and i speak Irish. i hate people like him argh Amhrán breá Mokong! Caithfidh níos mó daoine rudaí as Ghaeilge a déanamh ar Youtube!
The majority are people who came over from England during the plantations, but eventually realised England were wrong and started rebellions. Sure look at 1798, half of them were protestant including the leader! The majority of Irish people whether prod or catholic get on grand and we play GAA and speak Irish together. its onl;y a small majority that are hateful
"ba mhaith liom a rá" not "...a deir", rá is the verbal noun, deir is the present tense. But hey fair play to you mate, ur irish is pretty fluent even if ur grammar is a little odd sometimes.
i think you are great. keep up with the videos. my mom had the the kids in the gaeltect (?sp) when i was small...but moved to the us and i dont speak the language. great!
Great video. I wish I could speak the language fluently, but I am learning. I know about 9 words/phrases, which isn't bad for starting 2 days ago. LOL. Keep up the good work. Hope to see more vids from ya.
psh. What do you mean you can't sing well? I like your voice. It has uniqueness to it. pretty language too. I never knew it was a language[American] I don't believe we are taught very much here :/
im irish (live in cork) can speak a little irish, im from jealous of your ability to speak irish, im lerning myself lately. Just to let you know, i appreiacte your vid's, respect. Oh, and are you half somthing else?? curious because alot of fluent irish speakers are usually peole who are not 100% (so to speak) i know a romanian, and philipino friends who speak way better irish then i do!! lol. Well done
Thanks, that's really nice. I decided I would try to learn Gaelic and found a good site on BBC radio Northern Ireland last night, so now at least I can understand the first sentance you say here!
dud ur the type of student my irish teacher always wanted!táim in ann gaeilge a labhairt me féin, maith thú,ach is é mo thuairmse,i gceann cúpla mbliana beidh an teanga marbh sna catharacha..bhuel in mbaile atha cliath ar aon nós.Chaitheamar níos mo gaelscoileanna a oscailt chun an teanga a coimead beo
Have you ever heard Cherish the Ladies' "On Christmas night"? They have a beautifully haunting rendition of "Silent Night" in Irish. That's probably the one Christmas record I'll never grow tired of. :)
Also, as we're drawing closer to December, I'll try to put up "Glade jul(, dejlige jul)" -- the Danish version of "Silent Night" -- soon.
Well, I can only say that you really ought to find it and give it a listen. They're one of the best Irish trad. groups (IMHO), and their songs are stunning. (Apart from "On Christmas night", "The Girls Won't Leave the Boys Alone" also has a fair share of tracks with the ladies singing.)
I couldn't listen to that. You sing... bad? I learn Munster's dialect of Irish, maybe this one is other, but I think that your accent is too much... english? I say, I come from Poland and I can hear Irish only in Enya's songs. She sings without this "r" like in English. So do I.
My English accent is often mistaken for an Irish accent by other Americans. My irish ancestors came to Maryland in 1607 and to the mountains of Kentucky in 1778. only two Irish words survived -fenians as a term of affection for rowdy children and dgellis (faithful) for generations of dogs. I'd love to learn more, parial to the ulster dialog. Suggestions?
You ought to upload an audio (.mp3) of yourself reciting something common that we all know here in the U.S. I am facinated by accents and their change over time. If you still have the remnants of an Irish accent after 400 years of ancestors living here, please let us in on the sound. Thanks, Dennis (3rd gen. from Galway)
Yeah i remember when i was doing my leaving cert, for the Irish Aural exam the teacher would bring in tapes for us to listen to of people all different places in Ireland, needless to say i could never quite get the Donegal accent (hell some accents in english can be hard to get also, like that real strong Cork accent)
Haha funny you say that. I learned the Donegal and Connat accents because I checked all my Irish with my then-bf, who was raised in Donegal and moved to Galway.
Primary school mostly, seeing as it was an all irish speaking school (Gael Scolie) but went i went to secondary it was an english speaking school and i lost a lot in those years... and even more now that i'm out of school and hardly ever using it, nobody where i am speaks it outside of school, makes it a lot harder to keep it, but i try
If you're looking for someone to speak it with... I am nowhere near your level. A yank who took a liking to the language (welsh/scottish in me and I choose to learn Irish, go fig), but if you're willing to teach then we can converse?
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This is so great! I have lived in Wales for the past 8 years and have just returned to ireland and have missed hearing the Irish language - although the Welsh language is lovely to listen too.
Fair play to you for remembering so much Irish - I'll use these vids to brush up...
That's because he has a weird accent:S I'm irish and when i pseak irish, i sound irish and i dnt sound like that.....I think it's cause while I was listening to him he has alot alot or english pronoucciations on leters every hear and there....but he's still understandable....to an extent...he just neds to go to ireland for a long long period in a gaeltacht region, and soak up an accent and proper pronoucation..
Tá sé Eirnach! Feach ar a vids eile foain teanga. Tá a cuid gaeilge nios fear na an gaelige ata agam agus freastail me ar gaelscoil do ocht blian. (yes, I know my spelling is a bit off here and there) He's got one of those mid atlantic accents that a lot of younger irish people who grew up with american television have. I know a lot of (IRISH!) people with accents like his.
If you search for "Stilla natt" you´ll find this song in swedish:) I can´t upload videos by my self yet, but maybe in the future there will be a new post comment here with me singing ;)
I thought the video was interesting, I liked it! I'm not even going to get into "homg you're american don't speak Irish!" bit because, wow, anyway! You did a good job and you had fun. That's all what 'tubing is about, in the long run, isn't it? Having fun ;)
No he's saying that because he's American, he didn't know Irish was a language. It makes sense, I don't think many Americans are aware that Irish is a language.
so get educated on the facts before you try to speak for 3.5 million others again. And If a few million "yanks" wanna be Irish cos their great grandmother was then let them come here and bring some True Irishness back to this Emerald Ilse of ours cos retards like you are the new breed of Irish....... but you got your culture from American TV&Films and PS2 games,
I speak Gaelic, and am semi-fluent in Irish, so have plenty Gaelic culture. es, I watch a lot of American films. Great ones too, but I don't try to be a Yank, nor should they try to be Irish.. My mates, fluent Irish speakers from your island, detest the idiots Plastics as well. So you think blacks born and raised in Ireland aren't Irish? You're a racist then mate. I'm a nationalist. Learn some grammar please.
that uh.. antaghan.. must be speaking for only a few people, because most of us are happy that people like our languages enough to try to learn them. what do they know anyway? pfsht and they couldn't even make sense in what they wrote. but I think you did great =]
If you're born and brought up in Ireland, you're Irish. Nothing (a Scot) and my Irish mates hate more than these dumfuck Yanks trying to pass themselves off as one of us. THE ARE YANKS, NOT SCOTS/IRISH, FUCK OFF! We don't like you.
Life moves on and people move on just necause not all of Us still live in our home land that dose not take away the fact that were Irish you need to Fuck off. oh and dont clump Irish and Scots were differnt people and its rude
No, they weren't different poeple you tit. The Scotti were a Goidelic tribe who exanded there kingdom of Dal Riata from the north of Ireland to Argyle, Scotland, then beyond, in the 5th century after the fall of the Roman Empire.
I'm Irish too and I don't appreciate AMADÁNS like you speaking for us all.... "you don't have to be Irish to be IRISH" its a state of mind more than a nationality . There are very few true Irish ppl left in this country mostly dullards like you who don't have anything better to do than knocking others down.
a true Irishman would not pass a comment like that and don't speak for the scots either they are quite capable of speaking 4 themselves. OH and we had a referendum here a few years ago that decided that if your born and raised here in Ireland it doesn't entitle you to call yourself Irish you need to have Irish ancestry to be Irish these days moron and Quite a few Ppl are born and raised here but are actually Polish or Chinese(or whatever)..............
Kia Ora & Dia Dhuit! Skin tone should not be relevant as a person of mixed ethnic origins myself I just regard myself as a good Kiwi with equal footings in both the Maori and Irish traditions. Kia Kite tenei te kotou.
you look oriental! are you all irish or have you some foreigh blood in your veins. Wish i could speak the language as fluently as you. You clearly have a great love for our native tongue.
so are you one of the dublin o'halpins! Are you a hurler as well. What has your experience of going up in ireland been like "not looking irish" One of my family have recently adopted a child from vitnam. I worry that they will suffer racial abuse later. Do you find ireland a tolerant, liberal place to live.
I played hurling in primary, but wasn't very good at it :P
When i was growing up there weren't many filipinos here so alot of time people would think i was chinese or japanese, i experienced some bad moments, but generally in school and stuff got on well with my class mates and my skin was never an issue, they knew my mother was foreign but never made an issue of it. Though the ireland we live in now is different from when i was a kid
GLORIOUS LAD GLORIOUS! I should hope no ignoble bastards would harrass you merely for the pigment of your skin. keeping the love of the irish language alive. BEAUTIFUL! BEAUTIFUL! How could a guy in upstate NY go about learning it? Any suggestions?
unfortunatley there are always those who will look no further than the skin, but anyway, i wouldn't know personally where you could learn Irish, but do a search here on youtube for a guy called "IrishHermit" he did a video response to my first Irish video and mentioned some learning tools he has/knows of
Kia Ora and greetings from New Zealand. I like your Irish language videos and regret that I can't speak the language my late grandmother spoke as her native language. I am part Maori and Part Irish and make an effort NOT to use English at home and only Te Reo Maori. Irish people should speak Irish and not English otherwise it will be your loss.
i agree @ahalfeatengod
ahalfeatenemo 10 hours ago
you sound like a sheep
ahalfeatengod 4 days ago
Dia dhuit a chara! Físeán iontach
cailinnaheireann69 1 month ago
I heard that the Spanish armada stopped in Ireland and mixed with the people, is that why you're so dark? Sorry if this offends you, I'm a redhead Sicilian, so I have an idea about getting this question a lot
GrandeSalvatore96 3 months ago
It could have happened anywhere with any Christian group and any pagan language and I still would have found it just as funny.
sica3820 10 months ago
@shaunaSKITTLES I apologize if I gave that impression. What I meant is that because it's part of your own history you may not be able to see where I'm coming from. Throughout history Christianity as a whole has done everything possiblebto wipe out anything remotely pagan so to see two groups of them pitted against each other over a pagan language was incredibly ironic to me.
sica3820 10 months ago
Shite!
PCISFEAR 1 year ago
For all you thick fukers out there Irish is a course subject in Irish, i hate it, but sure what you gonna do :L Contae LochGarman(:
misdreavus11 1 year ago
hold down 5
hobojoes22 1 year ago
It's not really over where the language came from, but the reason where there are Protestants in Ireland to begin with were due to the plantations which was a ploy to overtake wipe put the Irish language, hence why we all speak English now! So it's not really to do with the religion at all but the fact that most of them came from England during that time!
And yes us Irish are aware that it is a celtic language :)
shaunaSKITTLES 1 year ago
@shaunaSKITTLES
I understand the bad blood between the English and Irish and why there is resentment there. My point was from an outsider's point of view. Regarding the language itself and this video, there were arguments among two Christian religious views about a language that is pagan in origin. You don't find that the least bit amusing? I suppose it may not be so funny to someone in the thick of it. I know it's close to home for you being an Irish native.
sica3820 10 months ago
@sica3820 Hmm you seem to be under the impression that all this prejudice against protestants is happening all over Ireland all the time? Well it's not, so I'm not in the thick of anything really :L Sure Irish had it's pagan roots but so did everything, Christ wasn't around at the time of it's origins so it doesn't really matter if it's pagan or not.
shaunaSKITTLES 10 months ago
@sica3820 Hmm you seem to be under the impression that all this prejudice against protestants is happening all over Ireland all the time? Well it's not, so I'm not in the thick of anything really :L Sure Irish had it's pagan roots but so did everything, Christ wasn't around at the time of it's origins so it doesn't really matter if it's pagan or not.
shaunaSKITTLES 10 months ago
I was fascinated listening to you speak in Irish. I'm American and it's a completely foreign language to my untrained ears but interesting nonetheless. I was reading through your comments and I just have to point out something I found amusing regarding the debate over Catholic and Protestant speakers of the language. People do realize it's a Celtic language, right? Christians fighting over a pagan language! lol!!
sica3820 1 year ago
@sica3820 its not a celtic language its a gaelic language, it was thought before that irish people are descended from celts but its not true we were Gaels ! not celts
FinuteD1 10 months ago
@FinuteD1
Thank you for trying to correct me on the origins of the language. It made me go look it up out of curiosity and what I found out was that it is indeed a Celtic language as the Gaels were a Celtic tribe. We were both correct. All Gaels are Celtic but not all Celts are Gaelic.
sica3820 10 months ago
@sica3820 Thanks for that :)
FinuteD1 10 months ago
were did u learn to speak irish
dbell499 1 year ago
Yea!! Ya still have this vid posted! Thanks man.. I love it!
Merry Christmas
hayze414 1 year ago
An-mhaith! But just to point out, that German is "Gearmánís" not Gearmánach. And French is "Fraincís" not Francach. But well done! :)
ManxyBoy1 1 year ago
maith thù! ta sè go deas!
emmmmxoxo 1 year ago
I heard that certain names come from different parts of Ireland, do you know where "Handley" is from...by any chance?
MrViola94 1 year ago
Deas thú ag labhairt as gaeilge, ach níl sé cruinn!! Haha
mcdaid77 1 year ago
Tusa vt diul fear :P
gymnasticsdude605 1 year ago
Go deimhin a fhios gaige seo cad atá sé ag caint faoi
MichaelPatterson9 1 year ago
i love how every language u meantion is the same only with gach on the end of it
except gearmanach
Slán
biddy96 1 year ago
if the article comes after after le, it has to be leis. you can't say "le an." you said "le an ceol" so it should be "leis an ceol." just looking out. fair play for doing this
oisin4690 1 year ago
@oisin4690 cheers for the tips, my grammar is úafásach :p, lol
MokongX3M 1 year ago
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oisin4690 1 year ago
Lol I keep thinking the 'believe on your t shirt is part of te subtitles! i Love irish!
GirlsAloudCC 1 year ago
Is brea liom an fisean
NDoris96 1 year ago
you are pronouncing a lot of the words wrong :(
ManxyBoy1 2 years ago
so whats your fascination with our language? :)
tazamainia93 2 years ago
If you can post the words. I'll learn them and post a video of me singing it.
Cheers.
IrishDunne 2 years ago
the words are in the description
MokongX3M 2 years ago
Ní raibh gach rud ceart, ach rinne tú iarracht den chéad scoth! Maith thú! Táim ag siúil go mór le físeán eile!
edie3434 2 years ago
you have a beautiful voice
agat guth álainn
KotetsuShinigami 2 years ago
I found this video last year and really enjoyed it. I'm glad you left it up so I can enjoy it again. Thank you for the cool video
hayze414 2 years ago
nice nice nice ^^ i love this language xD
Huppes1993 2 years ago
ufasach.....
nialler190188 2 years ago
bad Irish....!!!!
herculiez25r 2 years ago
It's actually quite good. Perhaps you are familiar with a different dialect or not used to his accent?
kaiyoko 2 years ago
just to let you know you got most of the words of the song wrong
TheXXCIARAWXX 2 years ago
Maith thú.
Lean ort agus ná caill do mhisneach.
Níos mó físeanna....
Micheál.
MICHEALCIARAN 2 years ago
go no u good ting
workenskin 2 years ago
I havent been to Ireland. I was born in Boston. All my grandparents come from Ireland and I have no other friendly exposure to the the language. Thanks for the post and the scholarly debate.
It sounds like a great language. Is it fun to speak?
joe
joefitzjoefitz 2 years ago
are u irsih at all
crysis109 2 years ago
born and raised in the emerald isle
MokongX3M 2 years ago 3
hey its me again i was just wondering and i know im right avbout this my last name is shine and you could look it up to even prove i have alot of irish in me and i have about 7 or 8 generations of family/ancestors back then that fought in the irish war and one of them were the king of mayo there and i am about 67% irish i think also even though my name and all that is in the historical book of irish names/familys and even though i dont have an irish accent ppl say im not irish i just wasnt there
crysis109 2 years ago
well then ur not irish....
ur just looking for some identity? plastic paddy
AnnoyingBeast 2 years ago
i have irish in me ok im not even close to full irish u fuckin fagget
crysis109 2 years ago
Dont Give up the day job! lol
themightycorkman 2 years ago
what do u think I'm callin u ya retard??lol
I'm jus wonderin,why do u reply if ur just gonna make yourself seem even more like a simpleton LOL
''Go look in the mirror'' lmfao are u 4?haha
Higginz1991 2 years ago
haha retard
Higginz1991 2 years ago
Hey, did anyone respond or did it fallthrough?
If it did I might reply, I know it in English and German, half of it in Welsh I think, and mysister knows a bit in Latin from a friend.. :D
TwiggyTheSphinx 2 years ago
what? I had 3 responses before... I think one was German, one was Danish and something else.... where'd they go... shame maybe the people removed the vids from their channels... shame.. ah well, it was a few years back now I guess... but yeah any new responses still always welcome
MokongX3M 2 years ago
Yeah it was a while back I 'spose. I love languages, I speak like 5 useless phrases in several languages :D I need to actually bother to learn a full language one day, I'm just struggling with german at the moment. :D
TwiggyTheSphinx 2 years ago
its glade jul with sissel to get it norway style
cobits 2 years ago
I'm reading this play called translations.
there are names that I have no idea how to pronounce. You've got names like Bun nAhaben, or first names like Owen that english soldiers pronounce Roland to make it comical. I dont see how you see any ressemblence with Owen and Roland. Can you please help me pronounce those?
upsilone 2 years ago
Bun nAhaben = BUN - NHOW -AN
xfairyrockstarx 2 years ago
erm... I am Irish.
And only two, English and Irish, sin é (that's it)
MokongX3M 2 years ago
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The Irish language is both divisive and sectarian.
separatesix 2 years ago
No, anyone is welcome to learn it
Freshhhhh1982 2 years ago
Well done yet again!
whisperinglindas 2 years ago
oh dang! irish kinda sounds like a foreign version of chinese!! this makes you even more of an interesting character!!
AWESOMENESS!!
-TheOJ
juliusmariano 3 years ago
tá gaeilge fuckin uafásach agat!! tá sé ar nós gur fhoghlaim tú é ó fuckin squirrel i lár contae ros comain ye fuckin mong!!!!! ó a dhiabhail tá brón orm ach díreach cuireann do blas isteach orm go mór...... AND YE WOULDN@T GET A NOTE IN A FUCKIN BANK!!!merry christmas!!
maoilscheachlainn 3 years ago
Hahahahahaha
'Tá gaeilge fuckin uafásach agat'
Isnt that a bit contradictory?
ostentatiousvirtue 2 years ago
Ceapaim go bhfuil guth maith agat, agus tá an físéan go-deas. Nollaig Shona gach duine!
rookybeats 3 years ago
tres bon moisuer! im irish and i think your irish is amazing mine is not so good but i can sing it in irish too
shinyeyeball 3 years ago
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what a fucking wang
plod3doze 3 years ago
sineadheaney9 = BOGWOG.
separatesix 3 years ago
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Can we not even have Christmas without the taigs taking it over.
separatesix 3 years ago
You DO realise that people can speak Irish & not be Catholic you idiotic pea brained gimp?!? I know a protestant american who speaks it very well!
Go raibh míle maith agat as an fís MoKong! Is brea liom an amhrán seo go hairithe i nGaeilge agus i nGearmanais :)
sineadheaney9 3 years ago
isnt taig bad word for catholics???
urssulas 3 years ago
Can we not have christmas without Ignorant cunts!
ThomasIRL95 3 years ago 4
you hate catholics, why??
duirling 3 years ago
he is a bad representation of good people. im protestant and i speak Irish. i hate people like him argh Amhrán breá Mokong! Caithfidh níos mó daoine rudaí as Ghaeilge a déanamh ar Youtube!
Seamus616 3 years ago
I am Catholic. There's notin wrong with that.
Why hate each other though?
sirchristian12 3 years ago
aren't protestant Irish people the ones who betrayed their countrymen and sided with the English?
theguythatcould 2 years ago
The majority are people who came over from England during the plantations, but eventually realised England were wrong and started rebellions. Sure look at 1798, half of them were protestant including the leader! The majority of Irish people whether prod or catholic get on grand and we play GAA and speak Irish together. its onl;y a small majority that are hateful
Seamus616 2 years ago
Maith maith tú. Tá Gaeilge ar dóigh agat a stócaigh!
Sportymike 3 years ago
I love Ireland -- I'm half irish and half cuban and often thought I'd get a long better in Ireland than an Irish-Brit, hahaha.
OctoBox 3 years ago
Almost like Éamon de Valera =D
Schtiel666 3 years ago
Yes like Eamon, smile. Only my Cuban side is "black and Taino," smile.
OctoBox 3 years ago
Good work mate. Nice song and keep the Gaeilge ag fas.
Danke Schon, arigatou, go raibh maith agat and Thank you
Remylebow 3 years ago
your greatin irish well one i love you
mirflan 3 years ago
Ja, ich kann suf Deutsch "Stille Nacht" singen, aber ich habe nicht ein gute Stimme, es tut mir leid.
ManUpstairMessenger 3 years ago
ur great keep it up i will watch every video we need 2 regaelicise our land we need 2 destroy english language once n 4 all
CelticWarrior1983 3 years ago 2
"ba mhaith liom a rá" not "...a deir", rá is the verbal noun, deir is the present tense. But hey fair play to you mate, ur irish is pretty fluent even if ur grammar is a little odd sometimes.
benjo643 3 years ago
i think you are great. keep up with the videos. my mom had the the kids in the gaeltect (?sp) when i was small...but moved to the us and i dont speak the language. great!
countyrosmuc 3 years ago
not too shabby
icecreamman1107 3 years ago 2
Go hálainn ar fad ach tá cúpla focal mi ceartn agat, tá brón orm ach chaithfidh mé é ará!!! Ach cé cuma iarracht an-mhaith!!!
bubbles9963 3 years ago
go halainn ar fad!! gaeilge go deo!
kazzy1313 3 years ago
Great video. I wish I could speak the language fluently, but I am learning. I know about 9 words/phrases, which isn't bad for starting 2 days ago. LOL. Keep up the good work. Hope to see more vids from ya.
ItalianMick2025 3 years ago
It's such a pretty language. I wish that I could speak it :]
GD1992 4 years ago 7
tá tú an-maith :)nollaig shona
hairoil93 4 years ago
suiarc nollaig!
obrien97eire 4 years ago
im irish! i like his accent!
shaggydogaidan 4 years ago
psh. What do you mean you can't sing well? I like your voice. It has uniqueness to it. pretty language too. I never knew it was a language[American] I don't believe we are taught very much here :/
theresxhope 4 years ago 3
@theresxhope its not so pretty when u have to learn
hobojoes22 1 year ago
maith thu.
Gaeilge go deo
thedonnellan 4 years ago
nil thu ag chona go moith! nor ta tu go hiontach ar do gaeilge agus is maith liom tu
mop2mop 4 years ago
Tried to post my English version,but it is not showing yet.
CharityAngel 4 years ago
im irish (live in cork) can speak a little irish, im from jealous of your ability to speak irish, im lerning myself lately. Just to let you know, i appreiacte your vid's, respect. Oh, and are you half somthing else?? curious because alot of fluent irish speakers are usually peole who are not 100% (so to speak) i know a romanian, and philipino friends who speak way better irish then i do!! lol. Well done
Thuglordrpt 4 years ago
i am actually half filipino (mother)
MokongX3M 4 years ago
maith an fear.rinne tu jab iontach.
urlor 4 years ago
ta me go maith !!!!! agus tu fein !!!!:):) i aint the strong at irish but i try !!!! wish i could speak it perfect !!!!
hossie88 4 years ago
Thanks, that's really nice. I decided I would try to learn Gaelic and found a good site on BBC radio Northern Ireland last night, so now at least I can understand the first sentance you say here!
AnnaMartin1 4 years ago
Nil moranGaeilge agam, anyway Fainne oir ort!
As America
EireanngoBrach93 4 years ago
dud ur the type of student my irish teacher always wanted!táim in ann gaeilge a labhairt me féin, maith thú,ach is é mo thuairmse,i gceann cúpla mbliana beidh an teanga marbh sna catharacha..bhuel in mbaile atha cliath ar aon nós.Chaitheamar níos mo gaelscoileanna a oscailt chun an teanga a coimead beo
deedeebaby89 4 years ago
Have you ever heard Cherish the Ladies' "On Christmas night"? They have a beautifully haunting rendition of "Silent Night" in Irish. That's probably the one Christmas record I'll never grow tired of. :)
Also, as we're drawing closer to December, I'll try to put up "Glade jul(, dejlige jul)" -- the Danish version of "Silent Night" -- soon.
FrederikSOlesen 4 years ago
nope can't say i've ever heard of them i'm afraid, but if you do put up a danish vid, then early cheers and thanks dude :)
MokongX3M 4 years ago
Well, I can only say that you really ought to find it and give it a listen. They're one of the best Irish trad. groups (IMHO), and their songs are stunning. (Apart from "On Christmas night", "The Girls Won't Leave the Boys Alone" also has a fair share of tracks with the ladies singing.)
FrederikSOlesen 4 years ago
hehe you're the first filipino dude i hear speaking Gaeilge. i'm filipino too, but i grew up in NYC. Good job on these vids!
krodulf1 4 years ago
i want to be able to speak in this language =(
you should make a video that translates english into irish gaelic, but slowly. =D
I would love you forever
BocaGrapefruit 4 years ago
Yes it is a brilliant language!! but not many people have an interest in it anymore.. :(
But it is still alive enough!!
Is grá liom gaelige! :D
braceface384 4 years ago
say what?
lol
BocaGrapefruit 4 years ago
I couldn't listen to that. You sing... bad? I learn Munster's dialect of Irish, maybe this one is other, but I think that your accent is too much... english? I say, I come from Poland and I can hear Irish only in Enya's songs. She sings without this "r" like in English. So do I.
PainFlambee 4 years ago
Hmm, he is actually Irish you know....
animalunaris 4 years ago
You come from Poland? How do you not think he is Irish? He is clearly Irish, I am English and it is clear he does not sound English.
peacelover26 4 years ago
I think he sounds lovely, lovely carol.
peacelover26 4 years ago
Bless! It's making me feel all Christmassy already! ;)
animalunaris 4 years ago
he must feel like a horrid bolox!:L
helenax18x 4 years ago
wow that sounds so mutch like scottish gaidhlig laguage
donaldalbanich 4 years ago
good job!!!! i part irish and lots more
sexicaligirl09 4 years ago
Das cool bro!!! Keep up the good work and thanx for sharin'! Also thanx for puttin' in english subtitles for those of us unfortunate to know irish!
qualqui 4 years ago 2
My English accent is often mistaken for an Irish accent by other Americans. My irish ancestors came to Maryland in 1607 and to the mountains of Kentucky in 1778. only two Irish words survived -fenians as a term of affection for rowdy children and dgellis (faithful) for generations of dogs. I'd love to learn more, parial to the ulster dialog. Suggestions?
billyholler 4 years ago
You ought to upload an audio (.mp3) of yourself reciting something common that we all know here in the U.S. I am facinated by accents and their change over time. If you still have the remnants of an Irish accent after 400 years of ancestors living here, please let us in on the sound. Thanks, Dennis (3rd gen. from Galway)
dcghile 4 years ago
Yeah i remember when i was doing my leaving cert, for the Irish Aural exam the teacher would bring in tapes for us to listen to of people all different places in Ireland, needless to say i could never quite get the Donegal accent (hell some accents in english can be hard to get also, like that real strong Cork accent)
MokongX3M 4 years ago
Haha funny you say that. I learned the Donegal and Connat accents because I checked all my Irish with my then-bf, who was raised in Donegal and moved to Galway.
kaiyoko 2 years ago
woooo, go you! you look like you wouldnt know a word of irish but there you go!...i have my exams next year...where did you learn such good irish??
mags0258 4 years ago
Primary school mostly, seeing as it was an all irish speaking school (Gael Scolie) but went i went to secondary it was an english speaking school and i lost a lot in those years... and even more now that i'm out of school and hardly ever using it, nobody where i am speaks it outside of school, makes it a lot harder to keep it, but i try
MokongX3M 4 years ago
If you're looking for someone to speak it with... I am nowhere near your level. A yank who took a liking to the language (welsh/scottish in me and I choose to learn Irish, go fig), but if you're willing to teach then we can converse?
kaiyoko 2 years ago
nobody pronounces anything k'rock!!! where the hell in ireland were you?
mags0258 4 years ago
Tá tú an-mhait ag canadh as gaeilga.
Níl is agum a lán gaeilge
ta me ag foughlaim !
Chonaic mé do físeán eile.
bhi se go hionteach
Taim ablta ag caint oiche chuin ach nílim go maith ag canadh
agus ta bron orm foinn mo litrú agus mo gramadach
slan go foil
deano112211 4 years ago
oh my god whats with the major vibrato?lol
XxBOBLOVESSTARZxX 4 years ago
go h-iontach ar fad! Nollaig shona duit.
popeshillcork 4 years ago
shut up shut up SHUT UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
appletiser89 4 years ago
be nice now!
mags0258 4 years ago
hehe sorry! iv only just looked at your reply! i dunno, maybe i was a wee bit harsh, but he annoyed me!! and he has a parting!! lol!
appletiser89 4 years ago
gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay
appletiser89 4 years ago
aww, dont be so mean!
ps were not all gay!
mags0258 4 years ago
your a good singer although it took forever forever for you to explain how you were going to do the video!
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tappangirl07 4 years ago
This is so great! I have lived in Wales for the past 8 years and have just returned to ireland and have missed hearing the Irish language - although the Welsh language is lovely to listen too.
Fair play to you for remembering so much Irish - I'll use these vids to brush up...
annmariemiles 4 years ago
Heh.. Sorry if this is offensive, but gailge sounds like a mix of chinese/japanese and hebrew.. Never heard it spokem before with full sentences..
Kaukovalta 4 years ago
That's because he has a weird accent:S I'm irish and when i pseak irish, i sound irish and i dnt sound like that.....I think it's cause while I was listening to him he has alot alot or english pronoucciations on leters every hear and there....but he's still understandable....to an extent...he just neds to go to ireland for a long long period in a gaeltacht region, and soak up an accent and proper pronoucation..
Whisperhound 4 years ago
Tá sé Eirnach! Feach ar a vids eile foain teanga. Tá a cuid gaeilge nios fear na an gaelige ata agam agus freastail me ar gaelscoil do ocht blian. (yes, I know my spelling is a bit off here and there) He's got one of those mid atlantic accents that a lot of younger irish people who grew up with american television have. I know a lot of (IRISH!) people with accents like his.
marvelite90 4 years ago
Hi!
If you search for "Stilla natt" you´ll find this song in swedish:) I can´t upload videos by my self yet, but maybe in the future there will be a new post comment here with me singing ;)
Drummlan 4 years ago
That would be cool if you could :)
MokongX3M 4 years ago
go maith
xsobbingx 4 years ago
Go raibh mait buchail. Conas tu aga caint as gaeilge? Ta me ag caint as gaeilge agus bearla fresin!
Danom8 4 years ago
I thought the video was interesting, I liked it! I'm not even going to get into "homg you're american don't speak Irish!" bit because, wow, anyway! You did a good job and you had fun. That's all what 'tubing is about, in the long run, isn't it? Having fun ;)
iamreallyshort 4 years ago
Wait a minute, are you saying you think he's American?
animalunaris 4 years ago
No he's saying that because he's American, he didn't know Irish was a language. It makes sense, I don't think many Americans are aware that Irish is a language.
JosephEaorle 3 years ago
im of irish blood and american blood and i thought you did great =)
erin guh brawk =)
IrishxxPride 4 years ago
MokongX3M you should start giving lessons on the language here, that would be cool, call it TÚ Tube
ABCThePaddy 4 years ago
MokongX3M you should start giving lessons on the language here, that would be cool, call it TÚ Tube
ABCThePaddy 4 years ago
so get educated on the facts before you try to speak for 3.5 million others again. And If a few million "yanks" wanna be Irish cos their great grandmother was then let them come here and bring some True Irishness back to this Emerald Ilse of ours cos retards like you are the new breed of Irish....... but you got your culture from American TV&Films and PS2 games,
Slán go foil, go raibh maith agát
ABCThePaddy 4 years ago
I speak Gaelic, and am semi-fluent in Irish, so have plenty Gaelic culture. es, I watch a lot of American films. Great ones too, but I don't try to be a Yank, nor should they try to be Irish.. My mates, fluent Irish speakers from your island, detest the idiots Plastics as well. So you think blacks born and raised in Ireland aren't Irish? You're a racist then mate. I'm a nationalist. Learn some grammar please.
Antaghan 4 years ago
excellent!!!
pudgydraco 4 years ago
that uh.. antaghan.. must be speaking for only a few people, because most of us are happy that people like our languages enough to try to learn them. what do they know anyway? pfsht and they couldn't even make sense in what they wrote. but I think you did great =]
Maylookslikeafish 4 years ago
im part irish
brandyishot 4 years ago
Very nice song! More Irish!
colton1993 4 years ago
that was very pretty makes me want to fall asleep lol but nicely done
narutoavatar14 4 years ago
If you're born and brought up in Ireland, you're Irish. Nothing (a Scot) and my Irish mates hate more than these dumfuck Yanks trying to pass themselves off as one of us. THE ARE YANKS, NOT SCOTS/IRISH, FUCK OFF! We don't like you.
Antaghan 4 years ago
us yanks dont have anything better to do with our time but learn dead languages the irish hardly speak
and most yanks have irish ancestory
on thing i cant stand is irish scottish people hogging all the cultural indenty
dont be greedy
you just english
seraphimbelial616 4 years ago
Life moves on and people move on just necause not all of Us still live in our home land that dose not take away the fact that were Irish you need to Fuck off. oh and dont clump Irish and Scots were differnt people and its rude
LunasCraincloud 4 years ago
No, they weren't different poeple you tit. The Scotti were a Goidelic tribe who exanded there kingdom of Dal Riata from the north of Ireland to Argyle, Scotland, then beyond, in the 5th century after the fall of the Roman Empire.
Antaghan 4 years ago
I'm Irish too and I don't appreciate AMADÁNS like you speaking for us all.... "you don't have to be Irish to be IRISH" its a state of mind more than a nationality . There are very few true Irish ppl left in this country mostly dullards like you who don't have anything better to do than knocking others down.
ABCThePaddy 4 years ago
a true Irishman would not pass a comment like that and don't speak for the scots either they are quite capable of speaking 4 themselves. OH and we had a referendum here a few years ago that decided that if your born and raised here in Ireland it doesn't entitle you to call yourself Irish you need to have Irish ancestry to be Irish these days moron and Quite a few Ppl are born and raised here but are actually Polish or Chinese(or whatever)..............
ABCThePaddy 4 years ago
Dude you are a complete legend, I watched all your videos! Fair play, I wana' learn Irish and I'm gona' start night classes! Keep up the good work!
12345678999Mark12345 4 years ago
Kia Ora & Dia Dhuit! Skin tone should not be relevant as a person of mixed ethnic origins myself I just regard myself as a good Kiwi with equal footings in both the Maori and Irish traditions. Kia Kite tenei te kotou.
Ancupola 5 years ago
you look oriental! are you all irish or have you some foreigh blood in your veins. Wish i could speak the language as fluently as you. You clearly have a great love for our native tongue.
patkav101 5 years ago
i just realised if i had a euro everytime someone brought up the "you don't look irish" thing, i'd have a lot of euros, haha.
Yeah my mother is from the Philippines, but i was born and rared on the Emerald Ilse, skin might be brown, but blood runs green, haha
MokongX3M 5 years ago
so are you one of the dublin o'halpins! Are you a hurler as well. What has your experience of going up in ireland been like "not looking irish" One of my family have recently adopted a child from vitnam. I worry that they will suffer racial abuse later. Do you find ireland a tolerant, liberal place to live.
patkav101 5 years ago
I played hurling in primary, but wasn't very good at it :P
When i was growing up there weren't many filipinos here so alot of time people would think i was chinese or japanese, i experienced some bad moments, but generally in school and stuff got on well with my class mates and my skin was never an issue, they knew my mother was foreign but never made an issue of it. Though the ireland we live in now is different from when i was a kid
MokongX3M 5 years ago
GLORIOUS LAD GLORIOUS! I should hope no ignoble bastards would harrass you merely for the pigment of your skin. keeping the love of the irish language alive. BEAUTIFUL! BEAUTIFUL! How could a guy in upstate NY go about learning it? Any suggestions?
TheGreatFoldini 4 years ago
unfortunatley there are always those who will look no further than the skin, but anyway, i wouldn't know personally where you could learn Irish, but do a search here on youtube for a guy called "IrishHermit" he did a video response to my first Irish video and mentioned some learning tools he has/knows of
MokongX3M 4 years ago
Kia Ora and greetings from New Zealand. I like your Irish language videos and regret that I can't speak the language my late grandmother spoke as her native language. I am part Maori and Part Irish and make an effort NOT to use English at home and only Te Reo Maori. Irish people should speak Irish and not English otherwise it will be your loss.
Ancupola 5 years ago