Irish Rebel songs

[Valkyrie]

http://members.aol.com/drochsceal/

[canikickit]

http://members.aol.com/drochsceal/

"Droch" means "bad" and "scéal" means "story".
"drochséal" means "bad news".

Paris, nach bhfuil fhois agat go bhfuil tú ábalta pop up links a cuir isteach sna phosití?

Dála an scéal, conas atá tú? Níor chonaic mé tusa le fáda an lá. :)

[Valkyrie]

hi!!! ha ha! yeah, but everything is! The sceal is bad, but the wit is good, the pop-ups are annoying as hell.
and my Irish is very primative at best!

How are things with you? Thanks! - I would like to take you up on that beer sometime!

slán comrade!

[canikickit]

I have a suspicion that the only thing you understood was "how are you"?

"Níor chonaic mé tusa le fáda an lá", means I haven't seen you in a while.

If I was to ask you for a beer, it would be "an bhfuil tú ag dul go dtí an teach tairne"? Are you going to the pub?

I've mentioned it before, but the Irish for whisky, is "uisce bheatha" which literally means "holy water" ("uisce" being "water" ).

[Valkyrie]

sílim mé irish tá dócha fáil briste & dona! *

hahaha. *That's all the Irish I can do today! whoo! *Let me tell ya, that was rough just getting that one sentence out. *There's noone to talk Irish to around here. *(whine) * Sucks as what I did learn, took soooo long. *:(: * boo-hoo!!! *I'm so sad! * *Anyway, *I was always taught that fada is those accent symbols, you know anything about that?

Yeah, haven't been around too much lately, I drop by, but don't stay, just enough to keep up with the anarchy-bashing threads, etc. * Hey, that keeps me busy! *

Anyway, * You offered that beer in your "drunk thread" in chit chat. *sooo drunk you don't even remember! *ha! *

HA! *

[canikickit]

Ha!

A fada is an accent symbol, but "fáda" (with a fada) means "long". Actually, maybe the spellings are totally wrong, I'm not too sure where the fadas belong.

Did you learn Irish with a special course over there?
Hey, no one speaks Irish around here either! There are a few pubs in Dublin for speaking Irish, but not much else close to me. Although my brother is gone to the Gaeltacht for three weeks to improve his Irish for the big exams next year. That's the other side of the country.

[Valkyrie]

I learned Irish the H-Block way!! Verbally and phonetically. I had a friend who spoke Irish and learned from her and picked up a lot along the way. Inspired by our radical Irish Republicanism! The written part I learned impart somewhat later and still am not sure when I see certain words -- as some of the words are spelt far different from how they are pronounced.

It is really unfortunate that the Irish have to speak the Queen's English, (me too for that matter, though I make sure I slaughter it the best I can. ) Really dispicable that you have to go clear across the country to learn your native language. :(:( They do not teach that in school then? We must ensure that Irish survives.

[scott thesocialist]

don't remember where but i know its a scottish band that said
Fuck your Union Jack
I want my country back.....

[canikickit]

They say, that if you want to learn English, Ireland is the best place to go. I guess our accents don't change it as much as some of the English accents and what not.

We are thought Irish in school from ages 4 to 18 (the whole time, in other words). The government actually does quite a bit for the language, which is great. For example, my brother works for the civil service and recently went on an Irish learning course down to Kerry. It was sponsered by the government, and he still got paid for that week.

WE also have a state sponsered Irish-language station. it shows an awful lot of programmes from the US, but a sizeable proportion is dubbed into Irish. There are also a fair few Irish made originals, some excellent comedy. Most of the programmes in Irish have English subtitles, which are quite necessary, for me at least (I'd have some idea, but would get lost at times).

[Rastafari]

the only one I can sing is Cunlah

[Silent Eye]

The Irish Rovers are a great Irish band and i think they had a few songs about the IRA/England problems. They are one of my favorite groups. Anyone listen to'em?

[Anonymous]

Westlife - Flying Without Wings


Really deep and moving

[canikickit]

Westlife - Flying Without Wings

Yeah man! It defines everything I am as an Irishman. :biggrin:

[pastradamus]

HAHA! westlife! Im not too much into their stuff but that song "unbreakable" just makes ya wanna cry,its just so sweet man! lol

It disapoints me that they dont teach Irish North of the border dispite the massive amount of catholic republicans.

oh btw Paris, Its Slán Companach,companach meaning comrade.U gotta know lear that one! lol :)

[Ennis]

Scottish band is called Athenrye and the song is called Go On Home, they are an extreme Irish rebel band even more so than Eire Og or the Wolfe Tones.

By the way I can speak Irish if you need help, your Irish is very text oriented, almost schooltext like and you probably wouldnt get away with it outside of a classroom. A trip to Anagaire in Donegal would be worth your time for picking up the basics and you could then progress by text say by reading La the only Irish daily paper we have and of course TG4 is helpful.

Adh mor in any case.

[canikickit]

Who me? Or Paris? Sher lives in New York state, so I don't think they get TG4 over there.

I'm watching it now though.
The weather girls are quite nice, quite nice indeed.

Are you from Ennis?

[Felicia]

ha, it's funny that this topic is here..... I was just aboiut to ask cani if they speak Irish as a first language or second, if much if it is around at all............. People in nova scotia/cape breton speak some Irish, it used to be over 400,000 people in Nova Scotia alone spoke Irish...... that's big for canada ;)

No one I know, though I was tihnking about learning it a little :)

[canikickit]

over 400,000 people

Hey, hey! That's big for Ireland also!

[Felicia]

haha, but I think that figure is from the early 1900's ;)

It's dropped since then :(

[Ennis]

I speak enough Irish considering I am from Dublin, it is actually on the rise for the first time in like fifty years.

The language is gaining some kind of trendy aura about it which can only be a good thing culturally.

Anyway always nice to kow people in other countries are interested in the language.

[Felicia]

Well, my last name's Irish..... so it's only natural for there to be Irish in me.....plus I tend to take up interests in my family herritage :)