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Croga75
Member Username: Croga75
Post Number: 31 Registered: 01-2006
| Posted on Monday, January 30, 2006 - 02:20 pm: |
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ive found a few movies in irish and woundering if theres anywhere to buy them on dvd. cáca milis, yu ming is ainm dom. Ní Bheidh Mo Leithéid Arís Ann!
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Riona
Member Username: Riona
Post Number: 34 Registered: 01-2006
| Posted on Monday, January 30, 2006 - 08:56 pm: |
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It's nice that someone mentioned this because I've been wondering about movies. I'd like to know a few that are either in Gaeilge or have decent amounts of it. I thought then that I'd look for whare to obtain them Go raibh maith agat. Beir bua agus beannacht. |
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Antaine
Member Username: Antaine
Post Number: 635 Registered: 10-2004
| Posted on Tuesday, January 31, 2006 - 12:02 am: |
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Would you be so kind as to post titles and directors? |
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Antaine
Member Username: Antaine
Post Number: 638 Registered: 10-2004
| Posted on Tuesday, January 31, 2006 - 12:25 am: |
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I see there are tiles, I mean more titles. I remember looking up Yu Ming once upon a time, but could not find a place that carried it. |
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Ceolmhar
Member Username: Ceolmhar
Post Number: 22 Registered: 11-2005
| Posted on Tuesday, January 31, 2006 - 05:06 am: |
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Currently learning Irish and English. Please bear with me.
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Croga75
Member Username: Croga75
Post Number: 33 Registered: 01-2006
| Posted on Tuesday, January 31, 2006 - 11:42 am: |
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go raibh maith agat a cheolmhair. Ní Bheidh Mo Leithéid Arís Ann!
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julia (Unregistered Guest) Unregistered guest Posted From:
| Posted on Tuesday, January 31, 2006 - 02:59 pm: |
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yeah, go raibh míle maith agat, a Cheolmhar! Chonaic me "Yu Ming is Ainm Dom" sa Baile Átha Cliath anuraidh, ach níor feidir liom cóip a fháil. Now I can finally show my friends, after trying (and failing) to explain it! there was also a short film shown during Seachtain na Gaeilge last year, a humorous (or depressing?) look at the scrúdú béal. If I recall, it showed the examiner sitting there as student after student came in to stumble haltingly through the bits of Irish they'd laboriously memorized...anyone know what this was called, or where one might find a copy? |
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Drochfhuaimniú
Member Username: Drochfhuaimniú
Post Number: 52 Registered: 07-2005
| Posted on Tuesday, January 31, 2006 - 06:43 pm: |
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The film doesn't seem to work for me, I have RealPlayer & WMP and it still tells me I need a media player 'As long as I don't write about the government, religion, politics, and other institutions, I am free to print anything.' -Beaumarchais
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Aindréas
Member Username: Aindréas
Post Number: 28 Registered: 09-2005
| Posted on Tuesday, January 31, 2006 - 11:44 pm: |
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That was a really interesting film. Are some Irish really that ignorant about Irish, or was that an exageration? It was really depressing me at first … but then it had a cool ending. =) Coimhéad fearg fhear na foighde.
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Julia
Member Username: Julia
Post Number: 1 Registered: 01-2006
| Posted on Wednesday, February 01, 2006 - 01:39 am: |
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I think the whole thing is a bit of an exaggeration--I can't imagine Chinese immigrants turning their forks and knives upside-down and using them as chopsticks, for that matter--but it *is* funny. I think the humour largely works because it's unfortunately not quite far enough away from reality. Actually, that "C'mere, did ya know our Paddy spoke Chinese?" scene reminds me of a scene from James Joyce's _Ulysses_: a visiting Englishman in Dublin says something along the lines of "Conas ata tu" or "Maidin mhaith" to an Irish milkwoman, and she assumes he's speaking French. Sort of the same joke, just a hundred years earlier. |
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Domhnall
Member Username: Domhnall
Post Number: 479 Registered: 06-2005
| Posted on Wednesday, February 01, 2006 - 01:12 pm: |
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Unfortunately yes, Some Irish people are incredibly ignorant to their own culture. It's quite tradgic really. You can't blame them.. It's usually because of what society around them teachs them to believe and yet once again i point the finger at the education system >:L A people without a language of its own is only half a nation.A nation should guard its language more than its territories, 'tis a surer barrier and a more important frontier than mountain or river
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Lucy (Unregistered Guest) Unregistered guest Posted From:
| Posted on Wednesday, February 01, 2006 - 06:32 pm: |
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Don't they have parents? It's up to their parents to pass family culture and traditions also. |
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Liz
Member Username: Liz
Post Number: 62 Registered: 07-2005
| Posted on Wednesday, February 01, 2006 - 06:55 pm: |
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Go raibh maith agat, a Cheolmhair, for the link to the Yu Ming video. Another good one went up on the site yesterday by the same filmmaker. "Fluent Dysphasia". A man passes out drunk and wakes up the next morning unable to speak English, only speaks Irish and he's not happy about it. Here's the link -- http://www.atomfilms.com/landing/allReviews.jsp?keyword=fluent_dysphasia&page=1& site=af |
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TSJ (Unregistered Guest) Unregistered guest Posted From:
| Posted on Wednesday, February 01, 2006 - 10:58 pm: |
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There is a 2-hour movie in Irish with English translation available on DVD (NTSC and PAL Formats) called ' Aisling ' from Litriocht.com ( Click on "scannain' ). |
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Dalta
Member Username: Dalta
Post Number: 38 Registered: 12-2005
| Posted on Thursday, February 02, 2006 - 10:29 am: |
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We saw a film called 'Lipservice' in our class, it's only a short yoke, about the Leaving Cert oral exam, it's fairly decent and funny enough, if anyone can find it. |
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Riona
Member Username: Riona
Post Number: 41 Registered: 01-2006
| Posted on Monday, February 06, 2006 - 07:22 pm: |
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I've watched Yu Ming twice. I really liked it. You really could feel the disallusionment round about the middle when poor Yu Ming just can't figure out what is going on, what with the fact that noone is speaking their official language. I really liked the ending though. |
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Antaine
Member Username: Antaine
Post Number: 642 Registered: 10-2004
| Posted on Monday, February 06, 2006 - 08:16 pm: |
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well, you also have to figure that china would be taking a much sterner stance to ensure that its official language was spoken...stuff that wouldn't fly in ireland |
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