Hey all,

Some of you already know that I write a couple of weekly blog posts for Bitesize Irish Gaelic. I'd like to solicit your input on topics to write about.

The "Urban Irish" and "Irish Language Apps" topics I asked about earlier this month are both going to be topics of upcoming blogs. Some other titles I've done in the past several months include:

Irish Translators (as in the problem with machine translations)

How to speak "Celtic" (this was actually a brief description of the various Celtic languages)

A Linguistic Love Affair (about my own journey toward learning Irish)

Learn an Irish Christmas Carol

A Happy Irish New Year (tips on keeping your resolutions to study Irish)

Gimme that Old Irish Alphabet (this is actually addressing those requests we get for something "written in Old Irish," when the person usually really means "written in Irish script" or "written in Ogham")

Just about any topic related to the Irish language or to Irish culture and traditions is fair game!

These posts are short (usually around 1000 words), and are generally intended to be informative, but not instructional (in other words, they're meant to be interesting, and may include some points of grammar or spelling, but aren't intended to be lessons).

If you have any thoughts as to what might make a good blog topic, let me know!

Redwolf

Irish dialects- you have probably did this already!

The biggest misconceptions about Ireland!

The biggest misconceptions Irish people have of Americans!

Seanchas stories

Sean-nós

(possibly the difference between sean-nós music and singing and new age Irish music based somewhat on the old-style i.e the jump from individual performances to accompanied performances (Dubliners, Danú etc...) I like to call this an nós nua!

I hope there's a few ideas there!

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Please wait for corrections/ more input from other forum members before acting on advice

Various summer courses for adult learners;brief sketches of towns and places of interest; historic people ( real and imagined)

Mostly they do need to be language-related. I've done one on towns, for example, but it was on how town names are formed (I did something similar with surnames). As you surmised, I've done one on dialects (as well as on Irish vs. Scottish Gaelic). I've done a couple on sean-nós singing (I really don't know much about new age music, having no interest in it myself). I've done a couple on spelling, pronunciation, various points of grammar, etc. Seasonal ones as well (I've just finished two on Irish Christmas carols, one on phrases for Christmas, and one on New Year's resolutions). I'm planning one for St. Brighid's day.

These are very short articles and, as I need to get two done a week, I don't have a lot of time to do research, so I'm sticking pretty closely to topics I can talk about easily.

Redwolf

I usually spell that Brigid. I hope you appreciate my avatar when doing that one. Patron saint of Cill Dara.

What about an article on the influence of Irish on Hiberno English? She's after going to the shop etc. in terms of structure. Also just Irish words that have come into English in Irish. eg. The window smashed into smithereens. ('briste i smidiríní'.)

Another possible topic could be to do with Religion as an integral part of the language starting with Dia duit. Actually I'm going to start a thread about that; could be interesting. You might pick up something from that.

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As promised..... viewtopic.php?f=28&t=1776

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Good ideas!

It needs either an H or a punc. Otherwise it would be pronounced as Bridget not Bríd.


My namesake too, and this is me making the Cross.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7IPFqQYRU0

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It is recommended that you always wait for three to agree on a translation.
I speak Connemara Irish, and my input will often reflect that.
I will do an mp3 file on request for short translations.
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Ar fheabhas!

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Go hiontach, a Bhríd! Very cool!

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I am only a beginner. Please get confirmation before using any of my suggestions.