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Irish Language: Modern Irish
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The earliest form of the language, Primitive Irish, is found in ogham inscriptions up to about the 4th century. After the conversion to Christianity, Old Irish begins to appear as glosses in the margins of Latin manuscripts, beginning in the 6th century, until it gives way in the 10th century to Middle Irish. Modern Irish dates from about the 16th century.
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The Irish language was ... associated in the past with rural life and traditional work such as farming and fishing, but this perception is changing as well. The first ‘city Gaeltacht’ was established on the Shaws Road in Belfast at the end of the Sixties and the language has been becoming increasingly stronger since then in other cities such as Derry and Dublin. There are now opportunites to speak Irish in an urban setting that did not exist in the past, and this is helping the language greatly. Who would have imagined twenty years ago, for example, that one could order a cappucino through the medium of Irish in a modern fashionable café in Dublin or go to an Irish club to watch an Irish-speaking belly-dancer!
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This set contains Pimsleur Compact Irish: the full 5 hours of Pimsleur's Comprehensive Modern Irish foreign language training. This set of compact discs, a stand-alone program featuring ten half-hour lessons, teaches beginning language strategies for essential communication and traveling needs.
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S�amus � Grianna's most important contribution to modern literature in the language might be the fact that he persuaded his brother Seosamh to write in Irish. Seosamh was a less prolific and less fortunate writer than his brother, and was stricken by a severe depressive psychosis in 1935, so that he had to spend the rest of his life - more than fifty years - at a psychiatric hospital. Before his psychosis... he was able to finish a novel about the arrival of modern times in his own Gaeltacht, called "An Druma M�r" - "The Big Drum", or "The Fife and Drum Band", as well as an introspective travelogue, "Mo Bhealach F�in" - "My Own Way". His last novel, "D� mB�odh Ruball ar an �an" - "If the Bird Had a Tail" - a study of the alienation of a Gaeltacht man in Dublin - was left unfinished, a fact suggested by the book title.
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The course is designed to enable visiting students to acquire a basic command of the Modern Irish language. Though the course is non-intensive, provision can ... be made for use by the students of the Language Centre's laboratory as an auto-tutor facility.
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