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 July 11 2007, 20:33 PM |
CarolC
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When are you next coming to Ireland
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| July 11 2007, 20:36 PM |
Aibigéal
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| Redwolf wrote: |
I didn't know you played the flute! Do you do mostly classical stuff, or do you play Irish trad as well?
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No, I haven't got nimble enough fingers for Irish trad music really. Besides, I'll probably get beat with a bodhrán for saying this but one jig sounds more-or-less like another to me - they're all so fast! I'm wild about sean-nós singing, but somehow instrumental trad never grabbed me the same way.
I do play some classical, but mostly hymns, and mostly on winter evenings. There are a couple of oversized beanbag chairs upstairs in the library, and I dearly love to curl up in one of them with my alto and leaf through a couple of old hymnals, using them as a starting point and just playing whatever appeals to me. (And I do mean "curl up"! Most hymns don't take tremendous breath control, so I'm free to sit however I'm most comfortable.)
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| July 11 2007, 21:09 PM |
Aibigéal
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| kgleoite wrote: |
| Céard ba mhaith leat a bheith ag déanamh i gceann deich mbliana? |
Dá bhfaighinnse mo mhian? Bheinn pósta, páiste nó dhó agam, cónaí orm áit eicínt in Éirinn, mise ag roinnt mo chuid laethanta idir obair tí, bailescolaíocht agus scríbhneoireacht. Bheinn i mo chócaire maith, ní íosfadh na páistí rud ar bith nár chóir dóibh, agus léifeadh breis agus deichniúr an colún seachtainiúil i bhFoinse ina mhíneoinn rúndiamhra na matamaitice i nGaeilge bhreá bhinn nádúrtha.
(Nó bheinn réidh leis an iarchéimíocht seo ar aon nós, agus in ann aidiachtaí a chur sa tuiseal ginideach gan bhraiteoireacht.)
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| July 11 2007, 21:26 PM |
Aibigéal
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| Teifeach wrote: |
Have you Ever found Any thing Interesting in the Hedge rows?      |
Yes, but I suspect I'm easily interested. Rabbits' nests, wild raspberries and the way aspens leaf out in the spring are enough to do it for me.
I think the most surprising thing I've seen in a hedgerow was a golden eagle. Theoretically they don't live anywhere near here. (And I never saw that one again, so probably she was just passing through and there's nothing wrong with the theory.)
The most breathtaking would be a harder call, but a whitetail doe nursing her fawn certainly comes close.
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| July 11 2007, 22:12 PM |
Aibigéal
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| Riadach wrote: |
| An bhfuil na laethanta 10 n-uaire níos faide in Indiana? Conas a thagann leat an oiread sin a dhéanamh? Ní náire ar bith orm anois go bhfuil do chuid ghaeilge ag sárú mo chodasa ag an tráth seo, tá intleacht as cuimse agat? Dhá dhochtúireacht, tá sé ag dul rite liom mo mháisteacht do chur i gcríoch. |
Níl, níl a fhios agam, níl sí ná baol air agus níl.
Séard a thárla gur rinne mé an dá bhunchéim (rud atá neamhchoitianta, b'fhéidir, ach ní ró-éisceachtúil é) agus nuair a chuaigh mé ag cur isteach ar ollscoileanna iarchéime, níor cuireadh abhaile orm go gcaithfinn éirí as ceann amháin nó eile acu. Mar sin níor éirigh.
Agus mar adeir an seanfhocal, "is geall le sos malairt oibre": nuair a thraochaim mé féin ag obair ar thráchtas amháin, is féidir liom luí isteach ar an gceann eile arís. Is mór agam sin, mar níl mé ar na daoine seo ar féidir leo stánadh ar bhalla bhán ar feadh tamaill agus faoiseamh a bhaint as. Tá éad agam orthu ach ní fhéadaimse. Dá bhfágfaí mise gan rud le déanamh ach breathnú ar bhalla bheadh sé chomh maith agam a dhul agus mo chloigeann a chnagadh air, nó bheadh an oiread céanna suaimhnis ag teacht dom as.
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| July 11 2007, 22:24 PM |
Aibigéal
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| CarolC wrote: |
| When are you next coming to Ireland |
Well, I haven't bought any tickets yet, but almost certainly sometime this next year. I can't imagine spending a year in Zürich and not squeezing in a trip or two to Ireland!
Next time I come I want to see a little more of Dublin - twenty-four hours wasn't nearly enough! - and then (if it's more than a weekend trip) head out for "points west." Connemara would be nice but I'm not picky - I'd even go to Munster if it meant the chance to speak Irish.
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| July 11 2007, 22:32 PM |
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| you say your ma and da have some irish in them . so do you pratice with ya folks or are there a different dielict then you as i think you said your Connacht Irish or are there Connemara too ? |
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| July 11 2007, 23:05 PM |
Aibigéal
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| SeanMurphy1 wrote: |
| you say your ma and da have some irish in them . so do you pratice with ya folks or are there a different dielict then you as i think you said your Connacht Irish or are there Connemara too ? |
Irish ancestry, yes, but not the language. As far as I know the last of my Irish ancestors came here in the 1850s; I know for a fact that nobody in our family has been able to speak any Irish for at least four generations.
My father's people were weavers from Co. Antrim, so I assume the Irish they brought with them would have been Ulster Irish. As I said, though, I only found out about all this after I'd already started learning the language, so it hasn't really affected my choice of dialect. I have Connemara Irish simply because I wound up with a Connemara teacher.
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| July 11 2007, 23:22 PM |
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Seinneann tú an fheadóg mhór? Mise mar an gcéanna, ach an ceann traidisiúnta.
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| July 12 2007, 2:30 AM |
Aibigéal
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| Riadach wrote: |
| Seinneann tú an fheadóg mhór? Mise mar an gcéanna, ach an ceann traidisiúnta. |
Seinneann, ach níl a fhios agam nár chirte "feadóg ollmhór" a thabhairt uirthi seo!
Tá gnáth-fhéadóg mhór (nó "féadóg ghnáthmhór"?) agam freisin ach is í an altó a mheall mo chroí ón gcéad uair ar chuala mé ceann acu. Chuir mé na pingneachaí i dtaisce le cúpla bliain go raibh mé in ann ceann a fháil dom féin, agus is í sin is mó a sheinnim anois. ('Sé an t-aon mhíbhuntáiste a bhaineanns léi ná go bhfuil sí i ngléas G agus caithfear chuile rud a aistriú mar sin má théann tú ag comhsheinnm le daoine eile.)
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