Link round-up #5

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One last post to end the year - Blwyddyn newydd dda! / Athbhliain faoi mhaise daoibh!

Saying Gaelic / Gaeilic is ok - irishlanguage.ie

Saying ‘Gaelic’ for Irish is ok. That in itself doesn’t seem like a controversial statement but say it in Ireland or especially online, no doubt you will get comments saying ‘um actually it’s Gaeilge’ not ‘Gaelic’ or ‘Gaelic means GAA not the Irish language’ or ‘Gaelic is a family of languages, it’s like calling English, Germanic’.

This is one of the biggest hangups when it comes to the Irish language.

I used to be this person but I was wrong.

Insular R - Caoimhe, oakreef.ie

When printing came to Ireland, which took a while, most things were printed in English. Gaeilgeoirí didn’t have much to read (but most of them couldn’t, anyway). The first book printed with an Irish type was Aibidil Gaoidheilge agus Caiticiosma in 1571, using a font which had been commissioned by Elizabeth Tudor, though it was actually a bit of a hodgepodge of Gaelic, Roman and Italic, with the new Gaelic letters resembling the Anglo-Saxon type made by John Day.

Dublin Irish - I've been reading a number of posts on this blog, since I'm interested in dialects, and specifically Irish in Dublin/Leinster, since that's where my granny is from and where most of my Irish family still are. I'm very interested in places like Dublin (and Cardiff/south east Wales) where the local dialect is assumed by many to have died due to anglicisation, and in the efforts to research, record, and revitalise these dialects.

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[(Anonymous)]

Aww thank you for linking to my post! — Caoimhe

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Of course!! Thank you for linking to my Welsh Pokémon translations a little while ago on one of your posts too, by the way.