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	Ireland Hotels - Last Minute Hotel Deals (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Bed and Breakfast establishments in Ireland are renowned for their large, wholesome Irish Breakfast.
		The majority are family owned with the proprietor and members of the family there to welcome guests and to extend to them the renowned Irish hospitality.
		The Irish hotel is unique, in that more often than not, it acts as a social centre for the community.
	www.irish-hotel-guide.com (724 words)

	Reading Old Irish: The Values of the Letters
		In Old Irish spelling, slender consonants are those that are followed by the letters "e" or "i".
		The practical outcome: the letter "h" by itself is meaningless in Old Irish texts, except as a member of the digraphs "ch, th, ph".
		The real problem facing a modern reader of Old Irish is the fact that in digraphs such as "ai, ei, éi, ui, ái, ói, úi" the letter "i" may actually only serve to indicate the slender quality of the adjacent consonant.
	w3.lincolnu.edu /~focal/docs/rdgoldirish.htm (1460 words)

	Science Fair Projects - Old Irish
		Old Irish is the name given to the oldest form of the Irish language which can be more or less fully reconstructed from extant sources.
		Old Irish first appears in the margins of Latin religious manuscripts dating as early as the 6th century.
		Old Irish scribes even appeared to be confused on how to write their language, often giving several different spellings for the exact same word.
	www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Old_Irish (796 words)

	Top Irish Web Apps
		All most all the big companies have a call center somewhere in Ireland to fight off the political backlash of sending call center jobs to India and the technicians in those Irish call centers are as smart as an automatic email responder script and as thick as champ.
		How do you feel about the fact the country is changing to where there will be no farms or open fields and the entire country covered with new house subdivisions on anything that can be subdivided.
		Great to see Irish companies get some coverage on ReadWriteWeb, which is after all a leading media outlet in this space.
	www.readwriteweb.com /archives/top_irish_web_apps.php (2904 words)

	Andrew Cusack: The Old Irish Parliament House (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The old Irish Parliament House on Dublin's College Green is one of my favorite buildings in the whole world [as previously mentioned but not suitably expanded upon at the time].
		The Irish parliament (at the time legally subservient to the English one at Westminster) started meeting there in the 17th century; to my knowledge the first time this happened was October 5, 1692, though it may have been earlier.
		Irish MPs were now sent to the British House of Commons, while the Irish peers elected a smaller number of their group to be represented at the equivalent body in Westminster.
	www.andrewcusack.com /blog/2005/07/the_old_irish_p.php (1808 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Eadhadh (letter) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In Old Irish, the letter name was Edad.
		Ogham (Old Irish Ogam) was an alphabet used primarily to represent Gaelic languages.
		The original meaning of the letter name is unknown, but it is likely influenced by Idad, much like Gothic pairþra, qairþra, together with which it forms the coda of the Briatharogaim.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Eadhadh-%28letter%29 (281 words)

	Courses - Old Irish Diploma
		This course is intended to provide graduates in related disciplines with a solid grounding in Old Irish language and literature.
		Applications for admission must be made to the Dean of Graduate Studies by 30 June of the year in which admission is sought.
		Applications are normally accepted only from persons with a good honors degree in a cognate subject such as Modern Irish or another Celtic language, medieval languages, literature or history, archaeology.
	www.tcd.ie /Irish/irww317.htm (141 words)

	Primitive Irish language Information
		Primitive Irish is the oldest known form of the Irish language, known only from fragments, mostly personal names, inscribed on stone in the Ogham alphabet in Ireland and western Britain up to about the 6th century.
		Transcribed Ogham inscriptions show Primitive Irish to be archaic in character, lacking a letter for the /p/ phoneme, and in morphology and inflections similar to Gaulish, Latin, Classical Greek or Sanskrit.
		By contrast, Old Irish, written from the 6th century on, is recognisably Irish, complete with initial mutations, distinct "broad" and "slender" consonants, the letter P, consonant clusters created by the loss of unstressed syllables, along with a number of significant vowel and consonant changes.
	www.bookrags.com /wiki/Primitive_Irish_language (715 words)

	Irish language, alphabet and pronunciation
		The main concentrations of Irish speakers are in the Gaeltachtaí, which are scattered mainly along the west coast of Ireland and have a total population of 82,715, 76.3% of whom speak Irish.
		Irish (Gaeilge na hÉireann), which is also known as Irish Gaelic or Gaelic, is closely related to Manx (Gaelg Vanninagh) and Scottish Gaelic (Gàidhlig na h-Alba).
		Today Irish is usually written with a version of the Latin alphabet similar to the one used for Scottish Gaelic, though a spelling reform in 1957 eliminated some of the silent letters which are still used in Scottish Gaelic.
	www.omniglot.com /writing/irish.htm (889 words)

	The "Old Irish Mare"
		Broadly speaking, she is of medium size, 15.1 to 15.2- in height, short in her back, powerfully knit across the loin, and well developed in her hind quarters.
		But it is not to her looks alone but to a natural hardihood of constitution, begotten of the conditions under which she is kept and the work at which she is engaged, that the progeny of the Irish mare are indebted for many of the good qualities possessed by them.
		The land being for the most part light, the farms small, and the number of purposes for which the horses are required varied, it naturally follows that the type cultivated is of medium size and "handy" at the performance of such work as the animals are called upon to perform.
	www.travelinireland.com /ireland_guide/ireland_guide_the_old_irish_mare.htm (705 words)

	The History of Irish Dance
		The early history of Irish dance reveals a constant shifting of population through migration and invasions.
		There are only vague references to the early history of Irish dancing, but there is evidence that among its first practitioners were the Druids, who danced in religious rituals honouring the oak tree and the sun.
		Three principal Irish dances are mentioned often in sixteenth century writing: the Irish Hey, the Rinnce Fada (long dance) and the Trenchmore.
	www.irelandseye.com /dance.html (1256 words)

	Irish language
		Irish is the most deeply researched among all Gaelic languages.
		Originally a highly inflected language, as it was in Old epoch, Irish retains now essentially two noun cases, nominative and genitive, with the dative surviving in the singular of feminine nouns (though Classical language still uses dative widely); the language has present, past, future simple verb tenses in the indicative mood, also some complex tenses.
		We have some links to Old Irish (why not to start from the beginning period?) resources on the Web and soon we will publish a complete Old Irish grammar in our Indo-European Grammars.
	members.tripod.com /babaev/tree/irish.html (386 words)

	ORB Bibliographies: Old Irish and Early Christian Ireland
		Consolidates the fascicles of the Dictionary of the Irish Language and Contributions to a Dictionary of the Irish Language.
		Charles Plummer, "On the Colophons and Marginalia of Irish Scribes," Proceedings of the British Academy 12 (1926), 11-44.
		Idem, Branwen Daughter of Llyr: A Study in the Irish Affinities and of the Compilation of the Second Branch of the Mabinogi (Cardiff, 1958).
	www.the-orb.net /bibliographies/oldirish.html (1696 words)

	What do I need to learn Old Irish?
		I assume that you are primarily interested in learning Old Irish in order to read the medieval texts, and that you already have an understanding of English grammar, including conjugations, declensions, subjects, objects, and indirect objects.
		The translation exercises are derived from medieval Irish glosses to texts from the Latin Bible.
		Be sure to read Dennis King's "Reading Old Irish: The Values of the Letters," and his helpful "Triads of Ireland" page., based on Kuno Meyer's edition.
	www.digitalmedievalist.com /faqs/oldirish.html (1305 words)

	Irish Weddings
		They decided at last to yield completely to me. The Old Fellow said that he was acquainted with a man in Wweedore who had a nice curly-headed daughter who was as yet, unmarried although the young men from the two sandbanks were all about her, frenzied with eagerness to mary.
		It was not till 1818 that pre-contracts were deprived of their efficacy; and it was not necessary until 1844 that even marriages celebrated by the established clergy should be protected by forms analogous to those prescribed by the English law as settled in 1823 and 1835.
		The audience to some extent, shared in the musician's ecstasy; particularly Father Hannigan, from whose eyes tears were actually falling as the delicious melody ceased, and the old man raised his sightless eyes and listened, as it were, for the echo of his strains form the skies...
	www.geocities.com /Athens/2430/Iwed.html (5609 words)

	Old Irish Gaelic Sernames
		Old Irish Kingdoms and Clans - a supplement to IHM.
		By the beginning of the fourteenth century the territorial extent of the Irish lordship was at its height.
		By the ancient Irish it was called Feor Magh Eanagh, or "the Country of the Lakes," and Magh Uire, or "the Country of the Waters:" it was also called Ernai or Ernagh, and the inhabitants who lived around Logh Erne, Ernains and Erenochs.
	www.geocities.com /thomas_mcelroy/Gaelic_to_English.htm (1440 words)

	FT.com / Home UK / UK - Brussels ready to close 35-year-old Irish stud fees tax loophole (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The European Commission looks set to close a 35-year-old tax loophole that allows owners of Irish stud farms to pay no tax on the fees they charge for the sexual services of their stallions.
		However, the Commission letter to the Irish government said it was "unaware of the tax law's existence until it received a complaint in May 2003".
		Irish breeders accounted for 50 per cent of the top prize winning racehorses in 2004.
	news.ft.com /cms/s/fdba96c4-78ac-11d9-9961-00000e2511c8.html (588 words)

	Old Ireland Photographs, Vintage Irish Country Images
		Old Ireland countryside photograph of stone thatch cottages on Inisheer Aran island, Connemara, Co. Galway.
		Old rural Ireland - County Meath 1961, Irish farmer and horse plough.
		An old woman wearing a Galway shawl at the sea shore, Inisheer c1956, with O'Briens Castle in background.
	www.irelandposters.com /oldphotos (145 words)

	The Daltaí Boards: Question about old Irish
		I saw some pictures of ancient manuscripts, but they were impossible to read, ideally, i'd just like to see texts dating from before the language was modernised, the time of the ancient font and the long groups of letters that have since been cut off.
		Note that Old Irish means Irish from before the 12th Century, and is a very different language - almost like the difference between Anglo Saxon and English.
		Old Irish is not as different from Modern language as Old English is from modern English, BTW, A lot of words are recognizable and all.
	www.daltai.com /discus/messages/12465/12908.html?1094611624 (317 words)

	The OBOD Message Board :: View topic - Old Irish Linguistics
		The MS text IS IN OLD IRISH, the earliest stage of the language from which we have abundant texts.
		All Old Irish texts (apart from the glosses and this new glossed book of psalms found in a bog) are found in MSS that post-date the Old Irish period.
		All of the features I identified as crucial for dating can be found in the Old Irish text as well as in the modernised orthography one, although just the verbal forms would have been sufficient.
	www.druidry.org /board/viewtopic.php?t=17634&start=20&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight= (2800 words)

	The Medusa Fora :: View topic - The New York Times: Some Old Irish Songs With Punk and Pop
		The Irish rock band the Pogues made an appearance Thursday night at the Nokia Theater in Times Square, the first of four concerts there.
		In their seven-year run as an intact band, the Pogues amassed a cult audience around the world, fusing the sound of old Irish songs with punk and pop, bringing out the smashing force of a folkloric dance music.
		MacGowan who owned the best moments, with his lurching growl, especially in "Dirty Old Town," where the audience sang along through all four image-rich verses about kissing a girl by the factory wall and smelling the spring on the smoky wind.
	www.pogues.com /forum/viewtopic.php?p=39355 (789 words)

	The Old Irish Beggar-Women
		There was a peculiarity about the old woman, which struck every one who saw her, on the occasion of which we are speaking—these consisting of several members of the family, including two or three children, whom curiosity had gathered around her.
		For four or five years after this, the little, old, Irish beggar-woman was a frequent, although not a very regular, visitor of the family of which we are speaking, where, as she always suited her calls to the tea hour, a cup of that, her favourite beverage, always awaited her.
		At the period of the old woman’s first visit to the family alluded to, their circumstances were comfortable; and, for some time after, they continued so.
	www.electricscotland.com /bordertales/vol1story91.htm (2100 words)

	AllAboutIrish - Danny Boy
		Gather a group of Americans of Irish descent for a wake or a funeral and the odds are good you'll hear the haunting melody, and possibly the chilling verse of Danny Boy.
		Hard as it might be to believe, the notion that it's an old "Irish" song is pure fiction.
		I think the reason is tied to the impression that many of our ancestors did not really want to leave their native Ireland, and a piece of all of us will always look back.
	www.allaboutirish.com /library/music/dannyboy.shtm (503 words)

	Barry Fell Finds Old Irish Ogham (Ogam) Petroglyphs in WV -- and Berber and Algonquin ...
		The Libyan script is used to render two languages in the annotations (1) the ancient Libyan tongue itself, and (2) an Algonquian dialect of the northeastern group, perhaps allied to Shawnee.
		Irish monastic records state that during the reign of Pope Pelagius (555—561), an Irish ecclesiastic named St. Brendan (Brennain) made two voyages across the Atlantic Ocean, discovering a land far to the west, identified by some historians as North America.
		The Old Norse three-line rock inscriptions are read in the sequence, first the middle line, next the bottom line, and last the top line.
	www.cwva.org /wwvrunes/wwvrunes_3.html (2888 words)

	Old Irish Verbs and Vocabulary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		This established reference work is a valuable addition to the library of any Old Irish scholar and an indispensable aid for students learning Old Irish.
		Old Irish Verbs and Vocabulary also includes both Old Irish - English and English - Old Irish vocabulary sections, a perfect complement to E.G. Quin's Old-Irish Workbook.
		We have sample pages on-line of the verb tables and of the Old Irish - English vocabulary section from Old Irish Verbs and Vocabulary.
	www.cascadilla.com /oldirish.html (132 words)

	Irish Proverbs and Sayings - World Cultures European
		Old Sayings, Proverbs, Verses, advice and Irish Triads (three together) of course, they are by unknown authors.
		She is also known as the Fairy Queen of Munster and as a goddess of fertility beause she has control and command over crops and animals, especially cattle.
		Collection includes classic Irish triads dating from the ninth century, 28 riddles of traditional Irish life, 32 prayers and blessings for all occasions, 50 proverbs, and the best of Ireland's toasts.
	www.irishcultureandcustoms.com /Quotes/ProvbsSayings.html (1427 words)

	Irish Luck Penny Bookmark
		Giving a Luck Penny is a very old Irish tradition originally associated with the buying and selling of farm animals.
		These pre-1970 pennies, known as ‘hen’ pennies because of the image of a hen and chickens on one side and the Irish harp on the other are now extremely rare and have become collector items.
		These Luck Penny Bookmarks provide you with the opportunity not only to acquire an important part of Irish history but are also a way for you to spread the famous ‘luck of the Irish’ amongst your very special friends.
	www.irishabsolutely.com /site/480305/page/666308 (665 words)

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