IRISH ARTS CENTER

IRISH LANGUAGE DAY

Saturday 12th November, 2005
11am – 4pm


11am - 12.30 Gaelic Kids (as per regular weekly schedule)
Irish language class for 5 – 10 year olds.
All first time students welcome!

12.30 - 1.00 Registration

1.00 – 1.50 Introductory Class with Alexei Kondratiev

Intermediate Class with Roisin McKevitt

Advanced Class with Elaine Ní Bhraonáin

2.00 – 2.30 Ciorcal Cómhrá
Join us for a cup of tea and practice your Irish in conversation with Elaine Ní Bhraonáin and others!

2.30 - 4.00 Film Screenings

Yu Ming Is Ainm Dom (2003)
Written and directed by Daniel O’Hara, this award-winning short film tells the story of Chinese student Yu Ming who studies the Irish language in preparation for his trip to Ireland, only to find on his arrival in Dublin that no one understands Irish!

Man of Aran (1934)
American filmmaking pioneer Robert Flaherty’s groundbreaking film Man Of Aran explores the relationship of man to his natural environment. This classic film follows the lives of an island family set against the natural beauty of the Aran Islands situated off the west coast of Ireland.

Fee for the day is $10 for I.A.C. members / $12 for non-members.
Price includes light refreshments.

To reserve a place, please contact Brí Murphy-Mitchell on 212.757.3318 x203

RISH ARTS CENTER 553 W 51st ST NY, NY 10019
Between 10th and 11th Avenues - www.irishartscenter.org

It is truly heartening to see CUNY's Irish American Studies Program doing all this good work. As opposed to my old hometown of NYC, my adopted baile aíoch (ballywick) of San Francisco has a large, wealthy, and influential Irish American community that seems to be in a self-induced coma on the importance of preserving its roots. I often wonder if this is a by product of a virtual absence of Amercian Nativism (in both its political and paramiltary forms) out here, as opposed to NYC, where the nativists remained poweful in one form or another for 150 years.


Uair amháin eile: Ádh Mór! I sent this notice out to my Irish Studies list and some friends in NYC and Jersey.

Is fíor sin! Agus maith thú, a Elaine Ní Bhraonáin! Go raibh maith agat do ag scríobh: "An Tíogar Ceilteach: Ag Caitheamh Ama Taobh Amuigh de Cathair Nua-Eabhrac." (Irish Echo, vol. 78, no. 44, November 2 - 8, 2005, p. 13. http://www.irishecho.com)


Mícheál
FRC

A Mhíchíl,

Feicim go bhfuil FRC ag bun do theachtaireachta. Thuig mé gan dua í, ach seo athrú beag duit:

quote:

Go raibh maith agat do ag scríobh: "An Tíogar Ceilteach"

Go raibh maith agat as "An Tíogar Ceilteach" a scríobh.

GRMA, mo chara!

I believe it'd be - Grma a chara :)

Ba bhréa liom Yu Ming Is Ainm Dom a fheiceáil -
Enibhraonain, that'll be such a wonderful day, I wish I could be there - I'll let other students in the NY area know about this. Slán Sam

I could not recall what was the final outcome on the thread we had using mo chara versus a chara. I keep thinking that I should be able to say "my friend" that way when the vocative indeed calls for using "a" in addressing. Am I right in thinking that to refer to someone as my friend I would need to use the copula? Go raibh maith agat agus gabh mo leithscéal, a chara. :)

Mícheál
FRC

Hello,
I was wondering where I can find a website that will translate English to Gaelic?
My husband works with several Irish co-workers & they sometimes tell him something in Gaelic & He wants to try to Shall I say 'have fun & impress them all...

Maybe he could find a phrase & print it out for his office that they all may like!!!

What do you have in mind? Someone here should be able to translate for you.

quote:

Am I right in thinking that to refer to someone as my friend I would need to use the copula?

Tá an cheart agat. "Is cara liom X."

When you are addressing someone a "friend" the "mo" is obvious and therefore implied - if you wanted to say "O friends of Ireland", say - you would say "A chairde na hÉireann".

To emphasise that you are saying "my friend" you could say "A chara liom"

Yu ming is ainm dom..
Hmmm táim ag ceapadh go mbeadh an scannán seo oiriúnach do dhaoine atá im Chumann Gaelach - daoine allúracha ach go háirithe.
Bhfuil a fhios ag éinne siopa timpeall BhAC go bhféadfainn é a cheannach?
Míle!

Níl sé ar fáil.

Ach ós rud é gur in ollscoil atá tú, seans go bhfaighidh tú é ón mBord Oideachas aitiúl

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Míle maith a'at!

Some of the Phrases Eric & I can come up with are...

Welcome Friends

Once I Was Blind, Now I Can See

We Are All Friends Here

Today We Feast



Thank you for your help!!!