1. they speak irish, which is like a variation of celtic



2. guiness tastes the same everywhere



3. irish whiskey, makes scottish whishky taste like poop



4. ireland's been settled by the celts, the vikings, romans, and the english. 2 blocks away from bono's hotel is one of the largest viking settlements outside of scandinavia



5. they drive on the wrong side of the road = lots of skylines



6. its expensive! a 2007 miata is 34,000 euros. same car in the usa is 28,595 euro



7. they think my brother is a nerd, too much camera gear i suspect



8. the bar bill was rather high on this trip....



9. they dont really like the english much, they werent very nice to the irish....

potatoes!

that was only 9 you dingleberry!!

Get back to work!

He did mention the high bar tab...I'll justify that as the reason he missed one.

10. the whole thing is made of rock. rock neil, ******* rock

die.

Is that anything like how yonner types?

*Dons profesor like clothing*



Irish is primarily spoken in small areas along the western coast called gaeltacht. The acutal percentage of Irish speaking people is very low although Irish is a mandetory in the school system and is technically the offical language of the country. This is reflected in the various titles and names of goverment offices and the like. IE The Dáil, Houses of the Oireachtas,Teachta Dála, Sinn Fien, Taoiseach and so on.



None of those are pronounced anywhere close to what they look like.



There has been some movement to raise awareness of Irish and bring it back into common usage but mostly there has been little success. Irish may well be a dying language. In general, as all Irish speak English, there is little reason to speak Irish.



When you see Gaelic it's generally referring to Scottish Gaelic which is not the same language as Irish. They do have a lot in common but are not mutally intelligable by and large. Irish is part of the P Celtic family of languages which includes Irish, Gaelic and Manx (which is thought to be dead with the last fluent speaker dying in the 1960's. This is open to debate) The other branch of the celtic languages inclueds Welsh, Brenton and Cornish(which also may be dead)



The Irish word for Irish is Gaeilge.



There are three major dialects of Irish and they are not 100% intelligble to eachother. This makes standardizing Irish very difficult. The goverment uses the Connacht dialect.



There are some Irish broadcasts. You can listen at http://www.rte.ie/rnag/



Yeah, I'm a language geek.



All you never wanted to know about Irish and would never haved asked or learned save for the fact that I just HAD to respond.

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