New English-Irish Dictionary from Foras na Gaeilge.
Broken Irish is better than clever English. On President Obama's Ireland Visit this May 2011, he spoke Gaelic and used this Irish saying 'Broken Irish is better than clever English.' This saying's message is 'Use whatever Gaelic you have, doesn't matter how poor.' You can see Obama's speech on Youtube. 2.
Get this from a library! Irish prose, an essay in Irish with translation in English and a vocabulary. (Patrick S Dinneen).
In reality there are almost as many variations in Irish dialects as in English. Ulstermen speak very differently from Dubliners, for example. The dialect presented here is a sort of Generic Stage Irish, and should not be taken as representative of the speech of all Irish-speakers.
Irish spelling, although complicated, is actually much more regular than English spelling (!). The following summary is intended to cover only the broad principles of spelling and pronunciation. The English sounds used to show the value of the Irish letters are sometimes only approximate, although they are always reasonably close.
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Get this from a library! Irish prose: an essay in Irish with translation in English and a vocabulary. (Patrick S Dinneen; Society for the Preservation of the Irish Language.).
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