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  Irish language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Use of the term Irish also avoids confusion with Scottish Gaelic (Gàidhlig), and Manx Gaelic (Gaelg), the closely related languages spoken in Scotland and the Isle of Man, though the term Irish Gaelic is often used when the three languages and their relationship to one another are being discussed.
Irish is given recognition by the Constitution of Ireland as the first official language of the Republic of Ireland (with English being a second official language), despite the limited distribution of fluency among the population of that country.
Munster Irish is spoken in the Gaeltachtaí of Kerry (Contae Chiarraí), Muskerry (Múscraí), Cape Clear (Oileán Chléire) in the western part of County Cork (Contae Chorcaí), and the tiny pocket of Irish-speakers in An Rinn near Dungarvan (Dún Garbháin) in County Waterford (Contae Phort Láirge).
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 Kids.Net.Au - Encyclopedia > Irish language
Irish Gaelic (Gaeilge) is a Goidelic language spoken in Ireland.
Irish has recently received a degree of formal recognition in Northern Ireland, under the Good Friday Agreement alongside a small minority language called Ulster Scots (though some critics have questioned whether Ulster Scots is a language or merely a dialect of Lowland Scots).
Munster Irish is spoken in the Gaeltachtaí of Kerry (Ciarraí), Coolea (Cúil Aodha) in the western part of County Cork (Contae Chorcaí), and the tiny pocket of Irish-speakers near Dungarvan (Dún Garbháin) in County Waterford (Contae Phort Láirge).
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 English language - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
English is a West Germanic language that originated from languages brought to Britain during the first half of the first millennium by Germanic settlers from various parts of north-west Germany.
English is the primary language in Australia (Australian English), the Bahamas, Barbados (Caribbean English), Bermuda, Dominica, Gibraltar, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica (Jamaican English), New Zealand (New Zealand English), Antigua and Barbuda, St.
English is the most widely learned and used foreign language in the world, and, as such, many linguists believe it is no longer the exclusive cultural emblem of "native English speakers," but rather a language that is absorbing aspects of cultures worldwide as it grows in use.
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 Irish language Article, Irishlanguage Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Irish (Gaeilge) is a Goidelic language spoken in Ireland.
Munster Irish is spoken in the Gaeltachtaí of Kerry (Ciarraí), Coolea (Cúil Aodha) in the western part of County Cork (Contae Chorcaí), and the tiny pocket of Irish-speakersin An Rinn near Dungarvan (Dún Garbháin) in County Waterford (ContaePhort Láirge).
This is similar to the use of the word du in French,which is a compound of de (of) and le (the).
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 Irish words used in the English language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For a list of Irish words that have been imported into English and other languages, see the list of words of Irish origin at Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Non-nativized Irish words used in the English language, that have been officially and generally adopted in modern Ireland, include:
Punt ('pound' (currency), was often used in English to refer specifically to the Irish pound, now replaced by the euro)
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 Ch 2  Overkill
His admittedly 'strong aversion' to the Puritan gentry,' which he asserted, was 'largely' acquired in the course of research, resulted in a vivid vocabulary of condemnation that left no reader unmoved, either to fist-pounding affirmation or apoplectic disapproval.
My wife is sociologically Indian as far as both societies are concerned, and she has been denited the use of restaurant toilet facilities and has been hooted at by Whites.
Prominent members of the British Indian Department were of Scots or Irish descent, and British regiments recruited from Scottish glens and Welsh valleys as well as from the towns and villages of England.
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 Samuel Beckett Resources and Links   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Shedding light on a dark and droll Irish master by Mark Harman, 1996, on the Knowlson bio.
The word "war" itself appears nowhere in Godot or in those strange lyrical fictions of 1945-1946 which were published in The Expelled, The Calmant and The End and, in 1955, in Stories and Texts for Nothing.
Theatre of the Absurd: The West and the East by Jan Culík, School of Modern Languages and Cultures, Univ. of Glasgow.
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