A Chara: You are in luck.
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ÉIREANNAIGH
The Center for Irish Studies
The Center for Irish Studies
at the University of St. Thomas advances teaching
and scholarship in Irish Studies for Students, faculty
and friends of the university through publications,
instruction and public programs; enriches the international
dimensions of education at St. Thomas; and affirms the many
historic and contemporary bonds between the university,
Ireland and the Irish-American community.
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Of course the Irish have been in that neck of the woods for a long time. Here's Humphrey O'Sullivan writing about
the "dubh bán" Irish-speakers of Montserrat in 1830...
Is clos domh gur ab I an teanga Gaodhalach us teanga mathara a Monsearrat san India shiar ó aimsir Oilebher Cromuil, noch do dhíbir cuid de clanna Gaodhal ó Eirinn gur an oileann sin Montserrat. Labartar an Gaoidhilge ann le daoine dubha agus bána. Muise mo ghradh croid na diberthaigh bochta Gaodhalacha; cia dubh bán iad, is ionmhuin liomsa clanna Gaodhal.
