Hi!

My name's Beatrix, I'm an Australian violist who's been living in Europe between Vienna and Berlin for about 10 years. I'm super interested in Irish history and culture, inspired at first by my family's heritage (having emigrated following the Great Famine). Unfortunately, however, that interest did not extend to learning Irish until now haha perhaps because I am so appalling at languages.. now that I have grasped the Viennese dialect and regular German, I have a bit more confidence to learn.

I play experimental/improv viola and am influenced by Irish music and literature, mythology. Recently, I've been performing some trad songs but it's very hard for me to memorise all the text so I thought about writing my own very simple poetry in order to be able to remember words. It would be great if I could ask for some translations, as my knowledge of the language and particularly, pronunciations grows.

Really excited to have found the forum, thank you!

Beatrix

oops sorry haha