#gaelscoil

[burnitalldownism]

Colonisers gonna colonise.

“An Irish school in Ireland?!? Not on our watch!”

[steph-schuyler]

btw my years of gaelscoil trauma (literally still in a gaelscoil/gaelcholáiste send help) were all cured by de selby pt 1 thank you hozier i love you i love you i love you

is breá liom tú

[matchavanillalatte]

if i end up working & having a family in California or any of the west coast states in the future I will make sure my child starts learning Spanish in preschool. It’s literally insane to me that it’s not mandatory to become fluent in Spanish especially in CALIFORNIA and one of my biggest regrets from my k-12 education growing up

[germsiren]

last rb though.. the ring and meath gaeltachts aren’t on the 2022 map so it’s not As terrifying as that right now but still squeek

[yourcomputerr]

i wish we still spoke irish </3

[medb-like-grave]

honestly irish is just a better language. i don't know some phrases and words in english and just don't bother! who give a shit. unfortunately it has ruined my spelling for uncommon words, esp biology words like chlorophyll cuz we never say it in english

[kaityslangblr]

How to tell if a word is feminine or masculine in Irish

[lolasrambles]

You know what's funny?

The fact that Hozier has done waaaaaayyy more for the Irish language (not Celtic or Gaelic) than the Irish government has done in years.

Our government- who is supposed to protect our language and culture- has only trampled on it in a sorry attempt to Americanize our country (PLEASE GOD NOOO).

My proof of that is how they teach Gaeilge in schools. We are basically taught that it's useless from a very young age. I have attended a Gaelscoil and am currently attending a Gaelcholáiste, so thankfully I have always been taught the importance of Gaeilge but soooooo many people hate their language because of our government.

But then, HOZIER.

Hozier sang two songs with Irish in them and now there has never NEVER been as much interest and love for lrish as there is now.

So Hozier, thank you for those songs.

And to the Government; Get a life, at least PRETEND to care about our language and our culture, and don't try to Americanize our country please

Sincerely,

A Young Irish Speaker

[sraithpics]

I used to play football against this school when I was in primary school and always felt really bad for them having so few other kids to play with (I think there were about ten in the school back then so not even enough kids for a proper football team). They must be so happy to have so many new friends to play with.

[silly-zai]

Níl cead agat :<

the second I get better at Irish it's Over for you guys.

[ninyard]

i have to ask, do you have any kevin hcs from his childhood in ireland?

yes :) yes I do :) depending on how long he grew up there some of these might be irrelevant but here’s some baby kev in Ireland (these are kind of stupid but regardless here they are)

- While Kayleigh had him playing no-contact kid safe Exy, he also played hurling. It’s an Irish team sport that is played using a stick and a small hard ball and a lot of Irish kids play it. It’s a pretty big sport in Ireland, it’s really fast paced, and the only protection players wear is a helmet with a grate/face guard thing. You can “check” other player with your shoulder so long as the other person has the ball and you have one foot on the ground and tbh if you read the rules it wouldn’t surprise me if it inspired Kayleigh to invent Exy in some manner

- he went to a gaelscoil (Irish speaking school) for his first two years or so in school. This means they only speak in Irish and learn all of their subjects through Irish. Because of this Kevin can count and knows colours in Irish but doesn’t really know a whole lot else

- Kevin is naturally unbothered by cold weather because he spent those early years of his life in Ireland. He’ll wear shorts when the sun is barely peeking out of the sky and it’s only like 15 degrees Celsius outside because that’s just what Irish people do. We savour the sun in the tiny bits we see of it.

- Irish people love famous Irish people, so I bet Kayleigh would’ve been on local TV quite a lot. There’s a couple of interviews and videos of Kevin as a tiny Kevin playing baby Exy out there that he keeps hidden from the foxes. NOBODY knows they exist. Also as a tween he probably did some more interviews from the US for Irish TV. If somebody found them he would die on the spot.

- Kayleigh lived in Dublin before she had Kevin, and her family were from much more rural areas on the other side of the country, so Kevin doesn’t remember meeting her family at all. He would’ve met his grandparents a handful of times, but because he was so young, he doesn’t remember it. They were fluent Irish speakers, though, so Kayleigh always spoke in Irish around her family.

- Kayleigh’s funeral was in Ireland, and that was the first time Kevin had been back in Ireland since they moved to the US full time. It was really overwhelming for him, because so many memories kept coming back to him, memories he’d forgotten because he’d been so young.

- his grandparents call him by his Irish name, not Kevin. He doesn’t like it, but it’s their native language so he just accepts it. If any one of the foxes thought of calling him Caoimhín he’d kill them.

- (Kayleigh’s family make fun of his American accent. Irish people love making fun of Americans)

Kevin doesn’t remember a lot about living in Ireland but what he does remember is a lot of fond memories of his mom, and if he wants to feel close to her, he reminisces on it a lot. He has as many old interviews of her as he could possibly find, videos of her in university, and as much as it pains him to watch his mother beside Tetsuji as business partners, he watches those too. One interview is his favourite, one that Kayleigh did for the Irish language news, and it’s an interview where she’s talking about Exy as gaeilge/in Irish. She doesn’t falter, or trip over her words, or have to think at all about what she’s saying. It’s her first language, and she falls into it so easily. It makes him sad to think of how different his life would be if they’d stayed, but he would never go back in time and ask her to. She achieved her dream, she represented Ireland at their first Olympics, and the USA once she’d gotten her citizenship. He would do anything to have her back, but he wouldn’t change that.

[steph-schuyler]

guys im gonna die we were looking at a christmas carol during english and i accidentally audibly said

"she eben on my nezer till i scrooge"

what is wrong with me.

[hellojuiceboxbaby]

I actually wanted to talk a bit more about the Irish marauders headcanons

I hc Lily and Peter as both Irish (for some reason Peter gives off northern vibes lol)

Lily grew up beside her grandparents farm.

She she used to play there and often spent time taking of and playing with the animals

She went to a gaelscoil for primary school which is why she’s speaks Irish fluently

Peter is half Catholic (his mum) and half Protestant (his da)

He was born in the north and went to a Protestant all boys primary school

He goes to a Gaeltacht for 2 weeks every summer because he wants to connect with that part of his identity and learn the language

When they both started at hogwarts they both immediately connected and often make jokes about “hating the British” and saying things like “that’s very English of him isn’t it”

I don’t know how I feel about Peter having a northern Irish accent or not but if he does has a hint of it and lily’s the only one that understands him when he says certain things

Lily has a very big family with almost 20 cousins on both sides

Peter is a heavy weight, he out drinks each of the marauders ever night out

Lily learned how to Irish dance in primary school but she only remembers the basics

It takes them both a minimum of 45mins to leave after saying goodbye

Peter makes all the marauders watch the late late toy show with him every year

Lily wears the claddagh ring her mum gave her and she explains the meaning to James before she turns it when they start dating

Anyway there’s are loosely based off stuff from my own childhood and teen years so if something doesn’t make sense I don’t know how to explain it lol

[duine-aiteach]

How do you find being a queer Gaeilgeoir? I have seen a lot of Irish speakers that are Catholic/conservative and are therfore not the most accepting people in the world.

Is lespiach mé agus labhraíonn mé Gaeilge, ach tá mé buartha faoi na Caitliceagh agus na seandhaoine atá ann nach bfuil comh dheas faoin poblacht LADT+. Ar tharla a lán rudaí diúltach duit i spásanna le Gaeilgeoirí?

(Tá brón orm faoi aon botún déanta agam anseo, níl grammadach comh maith agam.)

It’s funny you ask that because most of the Gaeilgeoirí I know are LGBT (or happened to go the Gaelscoil in town) - in fact the only Irish-speaking environment I’ve ever been in was run by my local LGBT+ centre. I’m going to be attending a Ciorcal Comhrá this week in a general Irish centre in England so we’ll see what that’s like! In general Ireland is much more tolerant (and less Catholic) than before, though there has been a rise in bigoted attacks in the past couple of years. I’ve mostly found that people even if they’re not supportive, are generally nice enough. I do find, though, that people who are happy enough with gay people are not always as tolerant of trans people.*

Maybe it depends on your environment but I’ve found my love for the Irish language alongside the fact that I’m queer. They are both things I’ve struggled with and things I now take pride in.

*obligatory mention that I am only half-out. Which is to say, most people assume I’m a woman with short hair and I don’t correct them. I thought I was completely out in uni but turns out even after three years people I thought knew just assumed I was a woman with an unusual name. Denial is strong.

(Bíonn tú ceart go leor - níl grammadach comh maith agam freisin)

[seashellronan]

The button says "talk to me about anything" so random question: how did/do religious tensions impact your life? Is the catholic v protestant thing still evident in Ireland?

I find it fascinating, as I'm Australian and protestant but have ended up going to catholic primary school, high school, and university. Not deliberately, they just happened to be good schools in my vicinity.

tbh religious tensions don’t really effect me which i’m very lucky to say but i’m from the mayo in the west which is mostly catholic and i know tensions still exist in the north. I also wasn’t raised very religious my mam and brother both go to mass regularly although my mam says she has her own religion and i think she enjoys the meditative action of sitting in the church and focusing on the things she cares about and for my brother he sings in the choir and enjoys the community and neither of them support any of the backwards ideas although most of the people i know who are actively catholic don’t (again that’s just my experience) and i was never forced to go to mass it was always given as a choice even when i was very young. Again i know many have a different experience like my boyfriend was an alter server and his mam actually cried when he told her as a teenager that he didn’t want to go to mass anymore but my dad had lost all faith in the catholic church a long time ago with everything they’ve done in ireland so he never went to mass so i didn’t have to either. But also my brother is much older than me and was raised with my nanny who i know really encouraged him to be involved in the church and even wanted him to be a priest so even in my family there’s different perspectives.

I aslo went to a gaelscoil(all irish language school) for primary school which are actually required to be educate together schools and are supposed to be secular. We still did some religion classes but it was rarely and we also made our communions etc but we also had some non catholics my best friend at the time was a jehovah’s witness and a boy in my class was raised atheist. As for secondary school i went to a convent of mercy however it was a small town so we still had plenty of non catholic kids and even a muslim girl in my later years there as there was little choice for schools so they had to be open.

I live in Dublin now which is really multicultural and has so many different people from different areas at this point the catholic protestant thing for a lot of people here exists as a joke or a story (obviously there are still areas with huge religious tensions) and i admit if i meet someone and they’re protestant i still find it strange but i actually sang at a protestant wedding last year. So for me it’s a very neutral thing but i do know some people who are really effected by it and religious tension definitely still exists in ireland and it is still very much something that is in the public consciousness still and that most if not all irish people are aware of

[jartita-me-teneis]

Conor Anthony McGregor10 nació el 14 de julio de 1988 en Crumlin (Dublín), hijo de Tony y Margaret McGregor.11 Se crio en Crumlin, donde asistió a un Gaelscoil y Gaelcholáiste a nivel de primaria y secundaria, lugar en el que además desarrolló su pasión por el deporte, especialmente por el fútbol. En su niñez jugó para el Lourdes Celtic Football Club.12 A los 12 años, comenzó a practicar boxeo en el Crumlin Boxing Club.1314

En 2006, Conor se mudó con su familia a Lucan (Dublín), donde cursó la educación secundaria en el Gaelcholáiste Colaiste Cois Life, etapa en la que también obtuvo conocimientos sobre fontanería.15 Ya en Lucan, Conor McGregor conoció al futuro peleador de UFC Tom Egan, y empezaron a entrenar artes marciales mixtas juntos.16