#gaeilgoiri

[gayeilgeoir]

Butchered tongue feels like that voice in the back of your head wondering if it’s safe every time you speak Irish

Butchered tongue feels like when you speak Irish and someone looks at you expecting a translation for the language that’s forever the beating soul of their own country

Butchered tongue feels like crossing the border and not seeing the Irish langauge signs anymore

Butchered tongue feels like trying everything to pull back as much of your culture as possible and never feeling like it’s enough

Butchered tongue feels like the guilt for not doing enough to save the language every time you look at Irish history and realise what people did to save it so you could speak it

Butchered tongue feels like every single time someone mocks Irish in front of you and looks surprised that you call them out on it

Butchered tongue feels like the anger every time you struggle in Irish because it should come so easy to you

Butchered tongue feels like the disgust every time you have to speak English because you don’t know the Irish for it

[gayeilgeoir]

Gramatical gender in Irish is so interesting.

For the most part, the same terms are used for men and women, nouns are the same, the only different thing is the definitive article.

In most gendered languages, male is the default (Eg: my friends in Spanish for a group containing 9 women and 1 man uses the masculine version of the word friend) but Irish doesn’t really work that way.

Nothing about a noun also doesn’t tell you it’s gender, you just kinda have to know.

[gayeilgeoir]

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🇮🇪- favourite thing abt Irish

Probably just how much you can tell about the culture from the language. Irish is a gendered language, but it’s not like a lot of Romance languages where you can tell by the ending of a noun/adjective, even if you can sometimes. The language vocally sounds extremely fluid and flowy, and uses very flowery, poetic phrasing instead of simplistic phrasing (eg: go raibh maith agat, tá brón orm, dia dhuit directly translation to, may goodness be with you, the sorrow is on me, may god be with you, even when they’re used as thanks, sorry, and hi.)

Irish also has 32 words for field, countless for different type of rain, but none for Yes or no.

[gayeilgeoir]

As someone from the north of Ireland, I am arguably more Irish than a lot of you xenophobic southerners. I’m Irish because it’s the very soul of my being, I am nothing if I’m not Irish it’s what runs through my very veins. You’re Irish because you were born in Irish soil, you’ve never struggled for your Irish identity. So yeah, fuck you if you’ve ever said northerners aren’t Irish, you’re a bloody dick.

[gayeilgeoir]

Bhí me ag féachaint ag an tag Gaeilge, agus rinne sé me ag iarraidh ar tosú ag postáil as Gaeilge arís. Níl me líofa, ach tá iontach cleachtadh uaim 😭

Tabhair dom... stuif faoi postáil as Gaeilge, le do thoil (agus cabhair gramadach, ANOISSSS LE DO THOIL 😭)

[gayeilgeoir]

“Braith uaim an talamh ní riamh a bhfios agam. Ba mhaith liom... chuala me duine ag labhairt Gaelige go héasca, ba mhaith liom... fheicim duine séanaim ceol agus ag damhsa go héasca. Braithim uaim le haghaidh Éire saoirse. Bheith ag déanaim bróin na fir agus mná marbh, íospartachí de na cruálach ionróirí”

[tebbie]

Nollaig shona daoibhse, a chairde! <3