What all resources are out there for Connemara Irish? I'd really like something from An Cheatrú Rua or Leitir Mealláin. I know there's Learning Irish and An Theanga Bheo: Gaeilge Chonamara, but is there anything else?

Did you see the Sé Seachtainí series by TG Lurgan? It's a bit under your level but I've found it pretty useful.

I'm also trying to put something together for Memrise focusing on irregular verbs, expressions, and some difficult structures. But I'd really like to run it by some natives before I release it.

There are several books on Conamara Irish available from the Dublin Institute of Advanced Studies http://books.dias.ie/

Gaeilge Chois Fhairrge
Caint Ros Muc (2 vols.)
The Irish of Iorras Aithneach, County Galway (4 vols.)

There might be one or two more.

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Here are a couple of others:

I mBéal na Farraige - I am currently reading this book. It's a collection of stories relating to seaweed as well as the folklore and culture connected to seaweed. It uses mostly standardized spellings but does use dialectal forms of verbs, etc but it has a good selection of people from Connemara and Aran Islands. Interestingly I have found this book to be just above my level in reading which has been excellent. The vocab and structures are reasonably difficult and seems to be exactly what you would expect from a collection of informal stories told by average people. The important piece I have found is that each story is prefaced with the speaker's name and home town/region.

Seanchas Jimmí Chearra Chois Fharraige I just got this book and so I have only started to read through it. It has an explanation of the grammar "oddities" used by Jimmí Chearra in writing the manuscript and the spelling used in the book is very dialectal goil for dul and -achaí for the plurals ending in -acha. And the book is absolutely gigantic with 506 pages of text.

I also have the Kindle edition of Sé an Saol an Máistir but I have not really had a chance to look at it and thus cannot really give you a good idea about the language used. I personally find reading poetry less interesting than stories and history so that's why I have been a bit lazy about it.

If anyone else has some suggestions on books by authors from Connemara, I would be really interested in hearing about them!

Speaking of this, does anyone know which RnaG broadcasters are from Connemara? It seems there's podcasts available and I'd love to download some and just listen on repeat. Also, has anyone used the updated version of Learning Irish? Is it as good, and as dialectal, as the original?

I have the new version, it is still dialectal, no change to the book.


Well there is Mairtín Ó Cadhain, probably the best writer in Modern Irish, his best novel is Cré na Cille, although that's bollocks hard, at least I thought so and not fully in Connacht Irish, but the rest of his novels are very good.

Pádraig Ó Conaire's Scothscéalta would be a good place to start or his Brian Óg.

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Go raibh maith agat! I've added a few items to my wish list. I've found another author, Joe Steve Ó Neachtain Scríbhneoir agus aisteoir as Indreabhán, Conamara is ea Joe Steve Ó Neachtain. Tá cáil air le fada an lá i gConamara mar scríbhneoir amhrán, drámadóir, aisteoir, agus craoltóir. Scríobh sé an dráma raidió "Baile an Droichid" do Raidió na Gaeltachta sna 1980idí agus sna 1990idí, agus tá sé le feiceáil ón mbliain 1996 i leith sa sobaldráma Ros na Rún ar TG4. Ghnóthaigh sé go leor duaiseanna i gcomórtais scríbhneoireachta, go háirithe i gComórtas an Oireachtais.

Tá sé ina scríbhneoir bisiúil próis freisin. Thosaigh sé a chaithréim scríbhneoireachta leis an mbailiúchán gearrscéalta úd Clochmhóin. Ina dhiaidh sin, tháinig dhá mhórúrscéal lónléitheoireachta uaidh, mar atá, Scread Mhaidne agus Lámh Láidir.

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