Book Quiz
Foghlaim Gaeilge ar an idirlion
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Book Quiz

Many people believe that the ten books listed here are a help in understanding Irish history and culture.

Can you name the authors?

1. The Jail Journal
2. Knochnagow
3. Love Songs of Connacht
4. The Fall of Feudalism in Ireland
5. The Wild Swans at Coole
6. An t-Oíleánach
7. Peace by Ordeal
8. Gaelic Literature Surveyed
9. Seacht mBua an Éirí Amac
10. Dialann Deoraí.
    

FOGHLAIM GAEILGE AR AN IDIRLION

Micheál de Mórdha.

Tá baint ag trí cheantar Gaeltachta anseo sa Mhumhain le clár píolótach chun an Ghaeilge a fhoghlaim ar an idirlíon. Mar ar Oíche Shamhna do sheol Gaeltalk.net - láthair múinteoireachta i mBéal Átha an Ghaorthaidh, cúrsa píolótach le grúpa de mhic léinn i Phoenix, in Arizona sna Stáit Aontaithe. Tosnaíodh an cúrsa faoi scáth na comhlachta faisnéise teicneolaíochta, Bard na nGleann, a bhunaigh fear as Cill Chúile i gCorca Dhuibhne, Tomás Mac Gearailt, agus atá lonnaithe i mBéal Átha an Ghaorthaidh.

Is é an ceangal Gaeltachta eile atá ann go bhfuil na ranganna féin á gcur i láthair ó Oileán Chléire ag Dorothee Uí Cheallaigh Ph. D. agus beidh cabhair aici seo ó chainteoirí dúchais ón oileán sin. Tá Litríocht.com, an síopa leabhar ar an idirlíon comh maith á rith ag Bard na nGleann. Má éiríonn leis an gclár píolótach seo, beidh ranganna Gaeilge le fáil d'fhoghlaimeoirí ar fud an domhain faoi Eanáir, 2003, a deir an comhlacht Gaeltalk. net.
" Tá lucht foghlama na Gaeilge lasmuigh d'Éirinn agus Gaeltalk.net an-dóchasach faoin gcúrsa idirlín seo agus an deis thairbheach a thabharfaidh sé chun Gaeilge a fhoghlaim beo díreach ó mhuintir na Gaeltachta féinig. Le cúnamh Dé, spreagann sé tuilleamh forbartha sna Gaeltachtaí maidir le múinteoireacht, fostaíocht agus turasóireacht chultúrtha", a deir Diarmaid Mac Alsándair, bainisteoir Gaeltalk.net.

Leis an gclár píolótach seo, socraíodh ceangal beo idir trí áit in Eirinn agus an tIonad Foghlama agus Cultúir Gaelach in Arizona State University i Phoenix, Arizona. Nancy Hass agus Kathy Woods an beirt mhac léinn a rinne an ceangal beo tras-Atlantach. Dúradar go raibh an teicneolaíocht nua seo "do-chreidte" agus go mbheadh sé i bfhad níos éasca Gaeilge a fhoghlaim dá bharra ach go háirithe ……an fhoghraíocht (phonetics).
Tá seisear déag ón Ionad Foghlama agus Cultúr Gaelach san Ollscoil ag freastal ar an gcúrsa píolótach agus tá na mic léinn idir trí bliana déag agus trí fichead bliain d'aois.

"Foinse" 10-11-2002.

QUOTE / QUOTE

"If God lived on Earth, people would break his windows"
Yiddish proverb

"The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility".
Oscar Wilde,(1865-1900). Dublin born dramatist.

"There is no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty".
George Farquahar,(1678-1707). Dramatist, born in Co. Derry.

"Ulysses,(by James Joyce), is a dogged attempt to cover the world with mud".
E.M. Foster (1879-1970). Novelist, critic.

" "The baby does not understand English, and the Devil understands Latin".
Fr. Ronald Knox S.J. (1888-1957) when asked to conduct a baptism in English.

" "Think what I have got for Ireland! Something which she has wanted this past seven hundred years. Will anyone be satisfied with the bargain? Will anyone? I tell you this,…… early this morning I signed my death warrant".
Michael Collins (1890-1922) on the Anglo-Irish Treaty, 6th. December, 1921.

" "Liberty means responsibility. Thats why most men dread it".
George Bernard Shaw (1856- 1950 ) Dublin born dramatist.

" "Language was the key distinction of nationhood, the vital component which distinguished one group from another………and justified the quest for ( Irish ) political independence".
From 'Portrait of a Revolutionary' (General Richard Mulcahy) by Maryann G. Valiulis, 1992.

" "Happiness is no laughing matter".
Archbishop Whateley of Dublin, (1787-1863).

" "The Irish taught the English how to disobey".
Don Salvador Di Madariaga (1886-1978) Critic, League of Nations diplomat.

Answers to Book Quiz

(1) John Mitchell (1815-1875) Repealer.
(2) Charles Kickham (1826-1882), Fenian.
(3) Douglas Hyde (1862-1947) Gaelic scholar.
(4) Michael Davitt (1846-1905). Land Leaguer.
(5) William B. Yeats (1865-1939). Poet, scholar.
(6) Tomás O Criomhthain. Fisherman, writer.
(7) Lord Longford (Frank Pakenham ), (1906-2001), Politician.
(8) Aodh de Blacam,(1890-1951), Journalist, novelist.
(9) Pádraic O Conaire ( 1882-1928), Writer.
(10)Dónall Mac Amhlaigh (1926-1989) Novelist, journalist.