An chrogall Cheiltigh

Hi, I'm Ailbhe. Welcome to my blog, home of all things Celtic. Also where I put random aesthetic pictures I like. I'm 23 years old, Irish and Scottish, queer, autistic, pagan and proud of it. They/them pronouns please. English/Scots/Esperanto/French/Spanish/Portuguese/German/trying to learn all the Celtic languages. Irish and Scottish Gaelic are my best, then Welsh and Manx. Cornish and Breton are my worst.

[ardri-na-bpiteog]

We need better climate change education immediately because the amount of times I've seen "No 'climate change' here in Ireland/the UK 😂😂😂 this is the coldest and wettest summer of my life."

Like babes. Climate change doesn't mean that everywhere will hotter across the board all the time. It's climate change, the increase in the average temperatures is fucking with established climate patterns. Climate change is likely the reason the weather has been especially wet and cold so far this summer.

Have you noticed there's been a lot of "the ______est weather of my life" lately? Whether it's unusual amounts of rain, an unusually cool summer, or a winter without frost, it's all influenced by climate change babes!

[celt-punk-nation]

As much as I'm enjoying the relative lack of heatwaves this year... This is completely true

[disabled-dragoon]

I've seen some bad takes in my time but "several members of the same family all apparently having the same disability sounds like a scam to me" is certainly something isn't it

[celt-punk-nation]

Pip rules are an absolute joke, honestly...

[lionfloss]

Spring water of Mt. Fuji by Takeshi Kimura

[lionfloss]

Spring water of Mt. Fuji by Takeshi Kimura

[wizardpotions]

i feel like tumblr doesnt know about the pain and suffering that is english tap water,,,, girl there are stalagmites inside me

[monarchofrymden]

Lmao op lives in the south. The tap water up here is from fucking springs. It's so clean and fresh and has no stalagmites whatsoever. Cope and seethe southerner

[wizardpotions]

My bones are so strong from all the chalk I've been drinking that I could mull you into a fine paste

[astronomical-bagel]

You guys are like a two hour drive from each other

[celt-punk-nation]

This reminds me of my cousins in England

[ayeforscotland]

If this doesn’t show Scotland and Wales are different countries then I don’t know what does. Independence now!

Ireland get a pass because Cillian’s their boy and he was outstanding👍

[punished-venom-solitair-e]

[ly0nstea]

Apologies to @sleepycrowhours for stealing the tags but i want to make a point about learning irish (and I think it applies to language learning as a whole) Duolingo (especially the app, the website is better to be fair but not by much) shouldn't be your primary, or even secondary resource for language learning, it should be a supplement, like flash cards because that's basically what duolingo (Esp. the app) is. It's electronic flash cards, it's nice for vocabulary but horrible for learning grammar, it's yes or no, right or wrong, and language is more fluid than that.

In colloquial speak, if you get it more or less right, the speaker will probably get it, (especially with something as minor as séimhiú and urú which is the english equivalent to switching his/her/their, while duolingo will tell you a sentence is a complete bust if you replace gcat with chait with cat which contexually, speakers will fix themselves and probably won't even mention it to you. Not to mention language is fluid, speakers won't talk like a text book, they'll use conjunctions and phrases you dont know, they'll invent words on the fly.

You should always be learning from books, movies (Yu Ming is ainm dom or cáca milis for irish aimed at young children, an cailín ciúin for more general cinema), poetry (géibheann, an gnáthrud, etc.), music (Teir abhaile riú, oró sé do bheatha 'bhaile, an dreolín, etc.), tv (all of TG4, they have spongebob), RTE player is available for free online.

Buying an irish enlish dictionary, using focloir and teanglann, and reading grammar books will help, writing irish helps too because it makes you look up words you dont know. I had no idea how to use the subjunctive and imperative before, now i do.

All of the info i wrote about séimhiú's and urú's can be found with google, and all of my words of the day are on focloir and teanglann.

tl;dr, using only duolingo is going to give you more robotic speak that even textbook, your vocab will be kind of weird and hyper-specific (kinda like how only learning in a classroom only teaches you to speak about yourself and your family and nothing else). Read irish, write irish, live irish. Remember, you weren't taught your native tongue formally, 80% of what you learn comes from just picking up and talking to people, family, friends, teachers, and maybe 20% was taught in the first few years of school (and a lot of that is written/spelling anyway not actually communicating)

[panoramicireland]

Blue sky and green in the west of Ireland.

[cujiicu]

Sometimes when you clean your wip folder you find something you made years ago in a way to deal with and at the same time educate others on something very dear to you that's been stolen by people who see stealing it as "doing you a service"

Made this last year during Seachtain na Gaeilge

Anyway. Seeing this again made me think maybe it was alright, actually

Ní dhéanfaidh mé dearmad choíche. Ná bás an tseanteanga go deo

[ayeforscotland]

So obviously furries exist but the Tories and the British media trying to whip up a culture war frenzy about “Kids in schools identifying as cats” runs into one major problem…

Kids fucking love to wind adults up, especially those in positions of perceived authority.

Imagine sitting in class, knowing if you say something funny that it could end up on national news because your head teacher is a frothing culture war bigot.

Imagine all the other kids going along with it and backing them up.

[welshmusic-cerddoriaethcymraeg]

Hanes Eldon Terrace - Daniel Lloyd a Mr Pinc

Can/Song: Hanes Eldon Terrace (The History of Eldon Terrace) Canwr/Singer:Daniel Lloyd a Mr Pinc Album: Goleuadau Llundain (Lights of London) Track: 5

Gwrandewch ar y gan yma / Listen to the song here Prynwch yr albwm ‘Goleuadau Llundain’ yma / Buy the album 'Goleuadau Llundain’ here.

Geiriau: Tyd i fyw efo fi yn Eldon Terrace, gawn ni uffar o hwyl, ma'n siŵr. Anwybyddwch y t'wyllwch a'r tyllau yn y waliau a cadwch yn bell o'r dŵr! Awn ni fyny'r grisie heibio llunie o ddyddie 'di bod, 'ma pawb yn eu gwlau yn awr ond ma'n amser i droi y rhod… A ma'r walia yn binc, a dwi'n wyllt efo isio mynd nôl! A chditha yn fa'na a finna fan hyn, gofynnwch i mi pwy sy'n ffôl. Yn Eldon Terrace, dani'n creu hanes, yn Eldon Terrace yn 'Nymbar Wan’. Ma'r 'ashtre’ arian ar ben y tanc pysgod yn haeddu ei lle fel y cwîn! Ma'r 'heating’ di torri am yr ail waith mewn wsnos a ma Gibby yn andros o flîn. Ma Al yn y gegin ei galon ar red i ni weld fod y bacwn yn llosgi, y larwm yn canu, ond odd Sion yn siwr o ragweld… Fod y walia yn binc, a dwi'n wyllt efo isio mynd nôl! A chditha yn fa'na a finna fan hyn, gofynnwch i mi pwy sy'n ffôl. Yn Eldon Terrace, dani'n creu hanes, yn Eldon Terrace yn 'Nymbar Wan’. Yn Eldon Terrace, dani'n creu hanes, yn Eldon Terrace yn 'Nymbar Wan’. Tyd i fyw efo fi yn Eldon Terrace, gawn ni uffar o wledd o fwyd - chicken an’ cream a brechdana Maltesers 'di gneud gan y chef twp o Glwyd. Y 'George Foreman’ yn c'nesu, y nwy yn llenwi y tŷ, mae'r zig zags yn tanio a ma'r walia pinc 'di troi'n ddu. Nid yw'r waliau yn binc, a dwi'n wyllt efo isio mynd nôl! A chditha yn fa'na a finna fan hyn, gofynnwch i mi pwy sy'n ffôl. Yn Eldon Terrace, dani'n creu hanes, yn Eldon Terrace yn 'Nymbar Wan’. English Translation: Come and live with me in Eldon Terrace, we’ll have loads of fun, I’m sure. Ignore the darkness and the holes in the walls and keep well away from the water! We’ll go up the stairs past pictures of days gone by, everyone’s in bed now but it’s time to turn the wheel… And the walls are pink, and I’m aching with wanting to go back. And you over there and me over here, ask me who’s foolish. In Eldon Terrace, we make history, in Eldon Terrace in Number One. The silver ashtray is on the fish tank deserving of its place like the Queen! The heating is broken for the second time in a week and Gibby is terribly angry. Al’s in the kitchen, his heart racing for us to see that the bacon is burnt and the alarm is ringing, and Sion was sure to see… That the walls walls are pink, and I’m aching with wanting to go back. And you over there and me over here, ask me who’s foolish. In Eldon Terrace, we make history, in Eldon Terrace in Number One. In Eldon Terrace, we make history, in Eldon Terrace in Number One. Come and live with me in Eldon Terrace, we’ll have one hell of a feast - chicken and cream and Malteser sandwiches made by the stupid chef from Clwyd. The 'George Foreman’ heating up, the gas filling the house, the zig zags are igniting and the pink walls have turned black. The walls are not pink, and I’m aching with wanting to go back. And you over there and me over here, ask me who’s foolish. In Eldon Terrace, we make history, in Eldon Terrace in Number One.

[exercicedestyle]

[doomhope]

[ID: Aerial view of the ocean washing up on a sandy beach. End ID]

[owlservice]

Has anybody else noticed the UK government is talking about putting refugees in concentration camps

[owlservice]

Military housing to meet migrants’ ‘essential living needs … nothing more’

Immigration minister Robert Jenrick says asylum seekers to be placed in ‘repurposed barrack blocks’

"The government has pledged to move asylum seekers into disused military bases with the minimum living conditions allowed under international law, but has come under pressure from ministers whose constituencies would host the camps."

Jesus Christ. They're even calling them camps

[owlservice]

“Accommodation for migrants should meet their essential living needs and nothing more,” Jenrick said. “We must not elevate the wellbeing of illegal migrants above those of the British people.”

Jesus Christ

[ayeforscotland]

And with your help we can make it 100%.

[florealegiardini]

This wisteria drenched Manor House, outside Broadway, is the dream romantic Cotswolds getaway. ~ James Lloyd Cole

Broadway, Cotswolds, Worcestershire, England, United Kingdom

[ayeforscotland]

Just wanted to say thank you for your commitment to keeping the Indy dialogue going. My wife & I are both English, living now in the Highlands and previously in Ayrshire. We're both avid believers in Scottish Independence and paid-up members of the SNP. We were dismayed when Ms Sturgeon announced her intention to step down & torn over who to vote for as new leader. Frankly, none of the candidates is as inspiring as the incumbent, the hustings were no help & the petty bitching reminiscent of the tories. Your commentary helped us to decide our votes should go to Humza. Thanks again.

No problem at all, glad I was able to help out!