An Gréasaí Bróg - LYRICS + Translation - Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh 

My great grandmother use to sing this to me. Instantly recognized the melody.

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Love that!

Interesting idea. I would read it. Aye, Boudicca repelled the Romans, and there were certainly large Gaulish and Iberian Celtic populations. A couple of different strategic decisions, and the Celts might have owned most of central Europe, maybe more. They were great sailors, they could have expanded into the orient, or reached the Americas before the Scandinavians. It's got possibilities. I look forward to seeing what you do with this idea. There's an odd sci-fi titled "1491" that you might look at.

Galician is also Celtic

i am too

This song is in Breton, not Irish. Both are Celtic languages but they aren’t the same.

I speak Irish fluently, this is Irish, not Breton@@nbenefiel

Same

Emily Whaley Wait, this is slow?!

Dolphin Song Dolphin Song Well, I was introduced to this song by the group Gaelic Storm, under the name "Beidh aonach amárach" and I suppose the pace is around the same, but this version is far more laid back, to me at least. Galeic storm's is more energetic. It's difficult to explain, just that this version sounds far more like a lullaby. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ZbJ9CbmxqGY.html

Wait, this song gets FASTER? I could barely understand the child in THIS one! looks like I need to learn one hell of a lot more.

This version actually has faster tempo than Gaelic Storm's Beidh Aonach Amárach. What makes GS sound more punchy is the instruments they use :)

@@emilyb5307 Don't forget Altan's version of it!

In essence, it's about how annoying kids are.

I was thinking about the same thing!

I think it’s more a childhood crush on the shoemaker

Its kinda supposed to be about anoying kids-

I know im late but in 2014 a film was released in Irish and English called song of the sea it has an art style like the background if you're interested

Yeah I’m sure the shoemaker would be kind about it, but a little embarrassed about the little girl declaring she was in love with him ;)

Plot twist, its a gifted 10 year old boy

Vojtěch Mikloš I just put the songs on repeat until I pick up the sounds. Sometimes you can find phonetic lyrics too.

There are fixed rules for pronunciation in Irish unlike English so if you just learn how letters and certain combinations are pronounced you can pronounce any word. www.smo.uhi.ac.uk/gaeilge/donncha/focal/features/irishsp.html

Old Irish was much stranger than modern Irish, they most definitely worshipped a huge mixer. They had at least two forms of every verb, sometimes wildly different, because of changes in the language done by stress patterns. Also the pronominal object was infixed after the first prefix, and if no prefix was present in the verb, then an empty prefix no- was used. But negating and interrogative particles were prefixes. So something like ‘I understand you’ would be something like ‘under-you-stand-I’ while ‘I don’t understand you’ would be ‘not-you-understand-I’ and ‘do I understand you?’ would be ‘do-you-understand-I?’. Or, analogous in Czech, it’d be sth like: roz-tě-umím, ne-tě-rozumím, či-tě-rozumím?, etc. This blog post is a great description of this madness, which claims that ‘describing the Old Irish verbal system as 'complex' is like referring to the Arctic as 'somewhat chilly'’: mvtabilitie.blogspot.com/2008/09/also-known-as-most-demanding.html Orthography was the least problem of the Old Irish language. :P

@Vojtěch Mikloš , along with putting the song on repeat and listening over and over till I get the sounds, I often use the speed settings to slow the song down to a pace that I can hear each syllable & phoneme. I have done this for many songs over several years and have learned to sing several. I can look at the written Irish now & hear how many words and phrases sound. I am hooked on this on & a couple others to learn & sing for my granddaughter. keep at it & you will be surprised.

ps - another method that I have learned and used is to take the lyrics word by word, stopping & repeating each in the line till I can say the entire line (start by speaking it till you have it, then add the singing part). do each line in the verse till each can be said and sung individually, then put them together till the whole verse can be sung. in a seisiun, even if I only know one or two verses, I offer that. short but sweet & that motivates me to learn any others. often there are only 2 to 5 distinct verses and they repeat one or two.

I just remember that "In County Clare there is a hairy ass fair." ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-zj4xpbOJCSY.html

It's probably Mhareai who didn't want to go home

@@meridaskywalker7816 running off with a sailor ;)

Turns out it’s just this song but in German

Anyone know if Germany was populated by Celts in the recent past? (All of Europe used to speak Celtic languages which got pushed out by Rome.)

@@NiennaFan1 Well in my hometown Mainz they found a celtic settlement. So I would say there were Celts in Mainz. You can look it up. There were a few folks that settled in Mainz besides the romans and Celts.

@@NiennaFan1 The area of modern Germany was populated by Germanic tribes mainly, hence the name Germany. The Celts were oser to the meditteranean. France, Spain, Turkey and of course the British Isles. They were widespread but Germany specifically was dominated by Germanic tribes

Don't give up. I'm trying to learn it myself so I know exactly how your feeling but will be worth the effort 🍀🇮🇪

You've got this! :) Never stop learning. (A quick word of advice: This language is simply called "Irish" by most, or *Gaeilge*. "Gaelic" is actually the word they use for *Gàidhlig*-that is, Scottish Gaelic. ;))

Check out the podcast Bitesize Irish, it's not for teaching but just for motivation to those all over the world learning Irish. 🥰 I find it very encouraging and entertaining!

@@Nova7o9 Oh, yes, that is indeed a great channel!

@@adventureswithaurora It's called Irish, not Irish Gaelic.

The first Irish speakers didn't use the Latin alphabet, that was imposed after the medieval Anglo-Norman conquest. It doesn't map brilliantly onto how Irish is spoken, and you lose a fair amount of nuance. There are no letters in the Latin alphabet to convey the nuances of certain Celtic sounds, so early transliterators combined letters into rough approximations.

Lee Mack has a comedy video about Irish names, that they just pull Scrabble letters out of a bag and go “that’s your name, good luck” ;)

Haha.

Oh, so I'm not the only one who thought about it!😂 I think her parents ended up wishing she was still in love with a shoemaker....

@@meridaskywalker7816 then she’d live closer to home ;)

I speak irish if you had questions?

@@whistlingbanshee5038 Irish Gaelic right? How did you learn? And what are some good ways to get comfortable with the language?

@@fraangelico803 school. It's a mandetory subject through Primary and Secondary school so everyone learns it. It's taught terribly though, no one is fluent in it. Duolingo is actually brilliant for irish if your just starting out. It will give you good key words and phrases that will get you comfortable with reading it. I used it and it felt like doing primary school grammer again 😊. Then TG4 is the Irish tv station. If you search on youtube there's shows like Aifric and Ros na Rún which it can be helpful to watch to see conversations. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-JqYtG9BNhfM.html Seo Linn do pop songs in Irish too. They're not direct translations but it can help as you know broadly what the translations is 😊.

@@whistlingbanshee5038 Oh my god thank you, this was an extremely helpful response. I was using duolingo which was helpful, but I assumed it probably wouldn’t be the best way to get comfortable with the more involved areas of the language. Thank you for the recs, plus I’m always looking for music to help learn languages through, so I can’t wait to check that stuff out. Much appreciated! 🍀

​@@fraangelico803What was the recommendation the person gave? I also want to learn this language.

probably Gaelic

It's Irish :)

Irish Gaelic.. :-)

Americans call it Gaelic, the Irish call it the Irish language, Gaeilge or just plain Irish. It's what the Irish spoke up until the 1700s as a first language when the English forced them to speak English and tried to eradicate Irish culture.

it's the southwestern dialect of Irish (Co. Kerry).

LMAO I ALREADY FRECKIN TYPED THIS TWO MONTHS AGO? Lololol it's still there

Clair Ryan I mean there are three types of Irish

@@NiennaFan1 I heard there are more.

Marry them young

Probably just has a huge crush on the guy.

I mean it's not that weird. My friend had a huge crush on the dentist when she was like 9. The dentist was like 35

'Cause there wouldn't be much of a song

@@gracequach6769 Oh yeah that's true

She basically is, saying “don’t ask me that.” The kid is not being cooperative.