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For those of you learning Gaeilge;
This video explains the broad/slim vowels/consonants and their pronunciation, as well as the pronunciation of the Irish diphthongs. Irish has some w e i r d pronunciations and this video is very simple and concise ✨
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIokUII7LX0&feature=share
On this day: January 6th, 1839 - The 'Night Of The Big Wind' or 'Oíche na Gaoithe Moire' takes place; the most damaging storm in Irish history, some winds are estimated in excess of 130mph
Image: ‘At the Back of the North Wind’ by George MacDonald
One of the worst storms in Irish history took place on 5 January 1839, when heavy snow fell throughout Ireland. In Irish history it’s known as the ‘Night of the Big Wind’ or ‘Oíche na Gaoithe Móire.’
This storm developed in the mid-Atlantic region early on 6 January 1839, but really intensified as its associated depression moved up along the NW coast later in the night, bringing death and destruction to the whole island, Irish Weather Online states. Up to 300 people died in Ireland and tens of thousands were left homeless as winds reached well over 115 miles per hour, in a category three hurricane. Twenty-five percent of the houses in Dublin were destroyed and 42 ships were sunk.
The storm began after a period of very odd Irish weather. A heavy snowstorm on 5 January was followed by a balmy sunny day, almost unheard of for that time of year. Some people claimed the temperature reached as high as 23 degrees and the heavy snow of 5 January completely melted. During daytime on 6 January, a deep Atlantic low pressure system began moving across Ireland where it collided with the warm front.
The first news of bad weather was reported in Co Mayo. The steeple at the Church of Ireland in Castlebar church was blown down. As the evening wore on the winds began to howl and soon reached hurricane force. The arrival of the hurricane force winds would never be forgotten by those who witnessed it.
The Dublin Evening Post described its arrival with the following: “about half past ten it rose into a high gale, which continued to increase in fury until after midnight, when it blew a most fearful and destructive tempest.”
In Dublin, crowds flocked to the old Parliament House in College Green to hide under the portico, believing it one of the few places strong enough to withstand the storm. The Atlantic became so fierce that the waves broke over the tops of the Cliffs of Moher. The wind blew out lanterns and candles so the only source of light was from lightning, which frequently ignited in the sky. Thatched roofs were torn from thousands of houses and in many cases, the walls of the houses were flattened as well. Hail broke windows, church bells and towers came down by the score. So strong were the winds that grass sods were torn from hillsides and mountain sheep blown to their death, many others being killed by huge boulders which tumbled down the slopes after being dislodged from their perches by the fearsome winds. There are even reports that cattle froze to death where they stood. The back wall of the Guinness Brewery collapsed in Dublin, killing nine horses.
The Night of the Big Wind became part of Irish folk tradition. Irish folklore held that Judgement Day would occur on the Feast of the Epiphany, 6 January. Such a severe storm led many to believe that the end of the world was at hand.
When the British state pension system was introduced in 1909, one of the questions asked of those applicants in Ireland who lacked documentation was whether they could remember the storm of 1839.
A popular story holds that the storm inspired the Director of Armagh Observatory, the Reverend Romney Robinson, to develop the cup-anemometer, which remains the commonly used wind measuring device today.
A friend of mine in the states found this book in a Doctor’s office. That’s going to be one hell of a sleepover.
On this day: November 22nd, 1869 - Jeremiah O’Donovan Rossa, Fenian, contests and wins a Tipperary by-election in abstentia, but is declared ineligible as a convicted felon
The Tipperary by-election of 1869 was fought due to the death of the incumbent MP of the Liberal Party, Charles Moore. Independent Nationalist, Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa was returned to the British House of Commons for the Tipperary constituency, in which he defeated the Liberal Catholic, Denis Caulfield Heron, by 1054 to 898 votes. The election was declared invalid because Rossa was an imprisoned felon.
Cartoon relating to The Troubles from 1982
November 10th, 2015: Bloody Sunday: Former British soldier arrested in new phase of investigation
A former British soldier has been arrested by detectives investigating the Bloody Sunday shootings in Londonderry in 1972, sources said.
The 66-year-old man has been arrested in Co Antrim.
Detectives from Legacy Investigation Branch said the suspect is being interviewed at a police station in Belfast.
Thirteen people were killed on January 30 1972 by members of the Parachute Regiment when British paratroopers opened fire on a civil rights march in Londonderry.
Another victim of the shootings died months later.
It is understood the pensioner was arrested on suspicion of the murders of William Nash, 19, John Young, 17, and Michael McDaid, 20, all of whom were shot dead in close proximity to one another at a rubble barricade on Rossville Street.
It is believed the former soldier is also being questioned about the attempted murder of William Nash’s father Alexander. Mr Nash came to the barrier to save his son but was shot in the arm and body. It is understood the soldier gave evidence to the Government-commissioned inquiry into Bloody Sunday, undertaken by Lord Saville, under the cipher Lance Corporal J.
Kate Nash, William’s sister, welcomed the development.
“We have always fought very hard to be treated equally within the justice system,” she said. “I see this as a positive step.”
The officer leading the investigation, Detective Chief Inspector Ian Harrison, said today’s arrest marked a new phase in the overall investigation which would continue for some time.
The man would have been 23 at the time.
This is the first arrest since the murder investigation was launched into the Bloody Sunday events in 2012.
The investigation came following the Government- commissioned inquiry led by Lord Saville which found that none of the victims were posing a threat to soldiers when they were shot.
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1916 Rising medal cased and volunteer badge, this medal was given out to volunteers during the 50th aniversary of the rising in 1966.
On this day: September 6th, 1929 - Irish Free State Passports issued
Despite now being an independent state, Ireland still faced challenges in terms of basic administration. On this day diplomat John V. Fahy wrote a memorandum decrying that Irish Free State Passports in the United States of America had to be issued via Britain. Memorandum by John V. Fahy on the issue of Irish Free State Passports in the United States of America1 (A. 280) Dublin, 6 September 1929 The present position is that all Irish nationals in the U.S.A. who have not acquired American citizenship and who do not possess either British passports or Irish Free State passports must apply to the British Consular officers who will issue British passports to enable them to visit this country or to travel to any other country outside the U.S.A. The continuance of the anomalous position whereby the British authorities, notwithstanding the establishment of the Legation and of our offices in New York, still continue to perform functions of this character on our behalf has been the subject of a good deal of adverse criticism. The Minister Plenipotentiary2 has at various times pointed out the urgency of the question of the issue of our own passports in the U.S.A., stressing that the fact of having to refer our nationals to British Consulates has resulted in loss of prestige for the constitutional and international position of the Saorstát. Action is at present being taken with a view to the inauguration of satisfactory machinery for the issue of our own passports early in the coming winter, that is, some time about November. Position as regards Visas on passports of aliens travelling from the U.S.A. to the Irish Free State The passports of all aliens sailing from any port in the U.S.A. must bear a Saorstát Visa to enable the holders to land in the Irish Free State in the first instance or, if they land in the first instance at a British port, to come subsequently to the Irish Free State. For this purpose, Visa offices have been established at Boston and New York. It may be mentioned that the total value of the fees received from the issue of Visas is approximately £20,000 p.a. The Boston office was established at first with the intention that it would be possible to dispense with it on 1st October, 1929, as soon as the system had been inaugurated, and so transfer the Visa work to New York. Experience has shown that this would not be practicable, and a decision has now been taken to continue the present office up to 1st October, 1930, at least. Meanwhile, the question of its permanent establishment as a Consulate is being considered.
Today in Irish history: August 16th
1793 - The Convention Act bans representative bodies set up to campaign for a change in the law, i.e. putative rivals to the parliament
1832 - An Act is passed which allows for tithe payments to be commuted
1878 - The Intermediate Education Act grants female students the right to participate in public examinations and to enter into careers and professions
1879 - National Land League of Mayo is founded
1882 - Charles Stewart Parnell becomes a Freeman of the city of Dublin
1892 - National Literary Society is founded
1920 - Court-martial of Terence MacSwiney, Irish Volunteer and Lord Mayor of Cork
1921 - The first Dáil Éireann is dissolved and the second Dáil convenes
1981 - U2 plays its first show ever at Slane Castle outside Dublin, and its only Irish show of the year
1982 - Malcolm McArthur, who is wanted for the murder of a nurse named Bridie Gargan, is found in the flat of the Attorney General, Patrick Connolly; Mr Connolly resigns on this date
1995 - More than 100 people are evacuated from The Kitchen, the basement nightclub below the Clarence Hotel in Dublin after a fire is spotted on the roof. No injuries or fatalities are reported
1997 - On the 20th anniversary of the death of Elvis Presley, U2’s PopMart show in Vienna, Austria is filled with tributes and references to the King
2001 - Dozens of wild birds, including swans, mallard and moorhens are rounded up by animal welfare workers after a major oil spill in the River Liffey at Palmerstown in Co. Dublin.
Today I finished my first book written in a language other than English. I read An Triail, by the Irish playwright and political activist Máiréad Ní Ghráda. It deals with issues like the treatment of women and prostitution and things that 1960’s Ireland wasn’t very comfortable discussing. And it was done in a way that was largely conversational (though most of the time I had to go back and forth to a dictionary to look up words I didn’t know!). I took this picture earlier sitting on the grass next to Jans’s Steps at UCLA.
That book was the biggest pain in the arse.
Today in Irish history: June 15th
1555 - After Henry VIII suppresses the Chapter of St Patrick’s Cathedral it is restored on this date
1698 - Count George de Browne, governor of Livonia, Latvia, and field marshal in the Russian army, is born in Camas, Co. Limerick
1798 - The Rebel’s main division marches to Mountpleasant
1828 - Birth of Sir Thomas Newenhan Deane, architect, in Dundanion, Co. Cork
1919 - Pioneer Atlantic airmen Alcock and Brown land at Clifden, Co. Galway and complete the first non-stop trans-Atlantic flight
1930 - Michelle Wilson is born in New York City USA. She missed being born in Drogheda, County Louth Ireland by four months.
1967 - Black Velvet Band by Johnny Kelly and the Capitol showband reaches no. 1 in the Irish charts
1979 - The memorial to James Larkin (Jan 21, 1876 - Jan 30, 1947) on O’Connell Street, Dublin is unveiled. Larkin, a revolutionary socialist, dominated the Irish Trade Union movement. G. B. Shaw once described him as ‘the greatest Irishman since Parnell’
1982 - Actor Neil Fitzgerald dies at 90, in Princeton NJ
1989 - Ray McAlly, actor, dies in Dublin at 63
1996 - A massive bomb believed to have been planted by the IRA rips through a Manchester city centre and injures more than 200 people
1998 - Taoiseach Bertie Ahern dines at Cardiff Castle as European Union heads of government celebrate the launch of “the people’s Europe”. Mr. Ahern is given a place of honor on the left of Queen Elizabeth II
1999 - Boyzone singer Stephen Gately confirms that he is gay
2003 - The total ban on smoking in pubs will definitely not go ahead on January 1 next, the country’s leading publicans’ representative confidently predict
2003 - According to a new international survey, Irish women are far more likely to be better educated than their male counterparts. The study based on joint UNESCO, OECD and EU data shows over 93% of 18-year-old females in Ireland are in continuing education, while only 66% of males are still in school or college.
2010 - Prior to the publication of the Saville Report, thousands of people converge at the Bloody Sunday memorial to walk to the Guildhall, symbolically completing the march which was prevented from reaching its destination in 1972. A screen erected to the side of the Guildhall shows live coverage of David Cameron’s speech in Westminster. The crowd cheers when he says Bloody Sunday was “unjustified and unjustifiable”; when he says the Army fired the first shot; when he says there was no justification for the soldiers’ shooting. And when he says “On behalf of the government and the country, "I am deeply sorry,” It is a historic day for the people of Derry and Northern Ireland.
On This Day: May 17th, 1974: Dublin and Monaghan bombings
Image: Talbot Street showing the destruction of the second car bomb
The Dublin and Monaghan bombings of 17 May 1974 were a series of co-ordinated car bombings in Dublin and Monaghan, Republic of Ireland. Three exploded in Dublin during rush hour and a fourth exploded in Monaghan almost ninety minutes later. They killed 33 civilians and a full-term unborn child, and injured almost 300. The bombings were the deadliest attack of the conflict known as the Troubles, and the deadliest terrorist attack in the Republic’s history. Most of the victims were young women, although the ages of the dead ranged from five months to 80 years.
The Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF), a loyalist paramilitary group from Northern Ireland, claimed responsibility for the bombings in 1993. It had launched a number of attacks in the Republic since 1969. There are credible allegations that elements of the British state security forces helped the UVF carry out the bombings, including members of the Glenanne gang. Some of these allegations have come from former members of the security forces. The Irish parliament’s Joint Committee on Justice called the attacks an act of international terrorism involving British state forces. The month before the bombings, the British government had lifted the UVF’s status as a proscribed organisation.
The bombings happened during the Ulster Workers’ Council strike. This was a general strike called by hardline loyalists and unionists in Northern Ireland who opposed the Sunningdale Agreement. Specifically, they opposed the sharing of political power with Irish nationalists, and the proposed role for the Republic in the governance of Northern Ireland. The Republic’s government had helped bring about the Agreement. The strike brought down the Agreement and the Northern Ireland Assembly on 28 May.
No-one has ever been charged with the bombings. A campaign by the victims’ families led to an Irish government inquiry under Justice Henry Barron. His 2003 report criticised the Garda Síochána’s investigation and said the investigators stopped their work prematurely. It also criticised the Fine Gael/Labour government of the time for its inaction and lack of interest in the bombings. The report said it was likely that British security force personnel were involved but had insufficient evidence of higher-level involvement. However, the inquiry was hindered by the British government’s refusal to release key documents. The victims’ families and others have continued to campaign for the British government to release these documents.
Image: Memorial to the bomb victims in Dublin’s Talbot Street
PSA: Gaeilge vs Gaelic
Gaeilge is the native language of Ireland. Gaelic (or Scottish Gaelic) is the native language of, you guessed it, Scotland. They share the same roots, but they are very different languages today!
Shapes in Irish - Cruthanna as Gaeilge
Cearnóg - Square Ciorcal - Circle Ubhchruth - Oval Triantán - Triangle Dronuilleog - Rectangle Peinteagán - Pentagon Heicseagán - Hexagon Heipteagán - Heptagon Ochtagán - Octagon Comhthreomharán - Parallelogram Sorcóir - Cylinder Cón - Cone Sféar - Sphere Pirimid - Pyramid Ciúb - Cube Ciúbóideach - Cuboid Priosma - Prism Trapéisiam - Trapezium Trapéasóideach - Trapezoid Ceathairshleasán - Quadrilateral
