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	Old Irish language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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.
		Fragments, mainly personal names, of an earlier form of the language (known as Primitive Irish) are known from inscriptions in the Ogham alphabet in Ireland and western Britain dating as late as the 4th century.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Old_Irish (1490 words)

	Encyclopedia: Old Irish language
		The Celtic languages are the languages descended from Proto-Celtic, or Common Celtic, spoken by ancient and modern Celts alike.
		Irish (Gaeilge), a Goidelic language spoken in the Republic of Ireland, the United Kingdom, Canada and the United States, is constitutionally recognized as the first official language of the Republic of Ireland.
		Munster Irish is spoken in the GaeltachtaÃ of Kerry (CiarraÃ), Coolea (CÃºil Aodha) in the western part of County Cork (Contae ChorcaÃ), and the tiny pocket of Irish-speakers in An Rinn near Dungarvan (DÃºn GarbhÃ¡in) in County Waterford (Contae Phort LÃ¡irge).
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Old-Irish-language (814 words)

	Irish language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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.
		As a treaty language of the European Union, the highest-level documents of the EU are translated into Irish; in addition, the language has also recently received a degree of formal recognition in Northern Ireland from the United Kingdom, under the Good Friday Agreement.
		Munster Irish is spoken in the Gaeltachtaí of Kerry (Contae Chiarraí), Muskerry (Múscraí), Cape Clear (Oileán Cléire) 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).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Irish_language (6270 words)

	Category:Irish language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Irish (Gaeilge) is a Goidelic language spoken in Ireland.
		The language is sometimes referred to in English as Gaelic (IPA /'geɪlɪk/), Irish Gaelic, or Erse, but is more generally referred to in Ireland as the Irish language or simply Irish.
		The main article for this category is Irish language.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Category:Irish_language (120 words)

	Ireland - The irish language
		Formally the Irish Republic is bilingual: the most spoken language is English but in some areas still survive the old Irish native language.
		Theoretically Irish is studied at school for approximately ten years, but they study most grammar, so it's very hard for many of them to have a conversation in Irish.
		Irish is a language of Celtic group and was introduced in Ireland by Celts in the last centuries before Christ.
	www.emmedici.com /journeys/eire/cultura/varie/eirish.htm (225 words)

	Old Irish and Early Christian Ireland: A Basic Bibliography
		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.ucc.ie /locus/oldirishbib.html (1786 words)

	Irish - Wikibooks, collection of open-content textbooks
		Irish Gaelic nouns form their plurals in a lot of different ways, depending on the specific noun, but every plural form is either strong or weak.
		Vicipéid is the irish language version of wikipedia a great place to practice your irish as there are plently of other wikipedians there to help you.
		Irish Gaelic Translation Forum is a post for requesting translations from a group of volunteering experienced speakers.
	en.wikibooks.org /wiki/Irish (4502 words)

	MacBain's Dictionary - Section 0
		from, in the adverbs a nall, a nìos, a nuas, a null; Irish, Old Irish an-, as anuas, etc.; Celtic a(p)ona, a derivative from Indo-European apo, whence Latin ab, Greek @Ga@'pó; German von, from, is the exact equivalent of the Celtic.
		Old Irish abis, from Latin abyssus: Welsh affwys, bottomless pit.
		Old Irish atchuaid, exposui, which Stokes refers to the root of chaidh, went, q.v.
	www.ceantar.org /Dicts/MB2/mb00.html (2299 words)

	Old-Irish spelling and pronunciation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		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.
		Old Irish, like most dialects of Modern Irish and Scottish Gaelic, had a strong stress accent on the first syllable of nouns, adjectives and the absolute forms of verbs.
	www.smo.uhi.ac.uk /old-irish/labhairt.html (1459 words)

	MODERN IRISH - Admissions - Trinity College Dublin
		This course is aimed at those who wish to study the language, literature and culture of Ireland from the earliest period to the 12th century.
		Old and Middle Irish prose and verse texts will be read and discussed and lectures will be given on palaeography (the study of manuscripts) and on aspects of early Irish political and social history.
		There are classes in the written language during each of the four years of the programme and language laboratory sessions are provided for students in the first two years.
	www.tcd.ie /Admissions/courses/course.php?ID=19 (1024 words)

	Language - Mezzofanti.org
		This Viking invasion ended the Old Irish period, and initiated the Middle Irish period - characterized by a shifting of the language to accommodate the new vocabularies forcefully introduced.
		With the Irish Potato Famine in the 19th century, families faced with economic desolation often had to abandon Gaelic in favor of English, in order to survive in the urban cities.
		Towards the end of the 19th century, many Irish were leaving their ancestral homeland in hopes of financial stability elsewhere, and the extinction of Irish Gaelic became a real possibility.
	www.mezzofanti.org /irish.html (2186 words)

	An Introduction to Old Irish, Modern Language Association of America, R. P. M. Lehmann, Lehmann W. P.
		Not surprisingly, instruction books on Old Irish, the language of the great early cycles and sagas, are thin and few between.
		But, immediately, you can tell yourself, in a temporary burst of pride: "I be reading the Old Irish!" It gets fierce difficult thereafter, but the authors are generous in their explanations and guidance, and you have a clear, graded path ahead to follow.
		The best sources are the Irish Texts Society based in London, the Royal Irish Academy (yes, that's correct) and the Center for Advanced Studies, both of which are in Dublin.
	www.sharisgarden.net /mystores/item_0873522885.html (572 words)

	Literary language (from literature) -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		They continued to use the language of universalism, addressing themselves to the nature of man, his relationship with the universe, the guarantees of morality, the...
		A language family that covers a broad geographical region and a vast historical period, the Semitic language group is part of an even larger language family known as Afro-Asiatic, or Hamito-Semitic.
		The language of the Aryans was Sanskrit, which eventually became the classic literary language of Hinduism, the leading religion of India.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-51290 (757 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 language
		The alphabet employed today for Irish can be called a variant or a derivative of the Roman alphabet that took shape about the 8th cent.
		Native speakers of Irish are now concentrated in the western counties of Ireland.
		The government of Ireland is trying, thus far unsuccessfully, to revive Irish as the primary language of the country; it is an official language, and the study of Irish is required in preparatory schools.
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/society/A0825484.html (250 words)

	Literature: Prose and poetry (from Ireland) -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The sounds and syllables of language are combined by authors in distinctive, and often rhythmic, ways to form the literature called poetry.
		Language can be used in several ways to tell a story, marvel at the wonders of nature, explain the universe, give advice, or ponder the mysteries of life and death.
		It was then that writers began to abandon Latin as the language of literature and write in one of the Italian dialects used in common speech.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-23039 (796 words)

	Roinn na Sean- agus na Meán-Ghaeilge, UCC/NUIC
		Departmental teaching for the BA in Irish is through the medium of the Irish language.
		The Department values the support of the Department of Modern Irish (Roinn na Nua-Ghaeilge / Department of Modern Irish) for the requirement that at least one module from the Early and Medieval Irish Department be taken in both second and third year BA.
		Thus, the two Departments work together in ensuring that all graduates in Irish language and literature are made familiar with the full spectrum of the subject.
	www.ucc.ie /acad/smg (274 words)

	Medieval Irish Language and Literature
		The Old Irish List is specifically intended for discussions of medieval Irish and liguistically related issues (it is not the place for cultural discussions).
		Pay particular attention to his essays on the orthography of Old Irish, and his presentation of Kuno Meyer's edition of the Irish triads.
		The Thesaurus Linguarum Hiberniae was a joint project of the Royal Irish Academy and University College Cork (CURIA) to create an on-line archive of literary and historical materials in the various languages of early, medieval and modern Ireland.
	www.digitalmedievalist.com /urls/medirish.html (661 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Irish setter
		Irish Setter, breed of hunting dog, which reputedly originated in Ireland several hundred years ago.
		Curly-Coated Retriever, breed of sporting dog, dating back to the 19th century and which probably derives from crossing the retrieving setter with...
		early Irish language, early middle Irish language, linguistic classification, Middle Irish language, Modern Irish language, Old Irish language,...
	encarta.msn.com /encnet/refpages/search.aspx?q=Irish+setter (126 words)

	irish language old (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Offers irish language old with a product or service that delivers channel gaeilge irish language teilifis television tg4 and irish language online translation.
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	www.languageresourceonline.com /Irish/irish-language-old.html (160 words)

	Irish Language, Gaelic, Music, Poetry, Songs, Games, Culture
		By the 1700's, the old Gaelic order in Ireland and Scotland was crumbling before the advances of the colonizing English.
		Irish Gaelic was the first vernacular language in Europe to develop a written form (in the 6th Century AD), I hope you come to enjoy the language and culture of Ireland.
		Irish Music selections spanning several centuries all brought together in a pleasant setting.
	www.irishpage.com (956 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)

	Irish Language Irish culture and customs - World Cultures European
		The biggest problem for people whose native language is English is that the soft 't' and 'd' are in the Irish language, but not in the English language; it's difficult to 'reproduce' them in writing in English.
		NOTE: Many people not familiar with writing letters in the Irish language seem to be under the impression that the ways to start and end a personal letter is with A Chara, and Mise, le Meas.
		Irish: Ba maith liom mé féin a chur in aithne duit
	www.irishcultureandcustoms.com /3Focloir/1Home.html (1636 words)

	Literature: Prose and poetry (from Ireland) -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Little of this literature is read today except by scholars of the Irish language and of comparative historical linguistics.
		The sheer volume of work attributed to Irish writers is remarkable considering the country's small size and, until recently, its only partially literate populace.
		The list of influential Irish prose writers and poets who both benefited from and contributed to the interplay between the different strands of the Anglo-Irish tradition is long.
	www.britannica.com /ebc/article-23039 (1101 words)

	Amazon.com: An Introduction to Old Irish: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Old English and Its Closest Relatives: A Survey of the Earliest Germanic Languages by Orrin W. Robinson
		The Roots, Verb-Forms and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language by William Dwight Whitney
		The other audience would be students of ancient Irish literature, who will find enough to start them feeling their way through the early material, as the bulk of the book is a minute analysis of the grammar and vocabulary of one not extremely long Old Irish tale (Mac da Dho's Pig).
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0873522885?v=glance (1085 words)

	Old Irish (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Ask for Irish Gaelic translations on this English to Gaelic, Gaelic to English translator forum.
		Irish language translations given on this voluntary community site cannot be guaranteed to be correct.
		You're in luck: that's not Old Irish (which is, for me, totally incomprehensible).
	www.irishgaelictranslator.com /translation/ntopic9328.html (256 words)

	General Irish
		Many different greetings are used in Ireland depending on the occasion, and the part of Ireland where the Irish is spoken.
		May the cat eat you, and may the cat be eaten by the devil.
		Some of the best and most culturally rich Irish is to be found in the old Irish proverbs.
	www.maths.tcd.ie /gaeilge/general.html (381 words)

	Research Interests
		Critical and historical approaches to Modern Irish literature (from Early Modern Irish to the 20th century).
		The Irish language, its literature and nationalism (late 19th to early 20th centuries).
		Translation of the Old Testament in Irish under the direction of William Bedell and its reception/adaptation in Ireland and Scotland.
	www.tcd.ie /Irish/irww2.htm (109 words)

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