Has anyone here read this book?

T. F. ORahilly, Irish Dialects Past and Present (Dublin: Browne and Nolan, 1932)

I'm looking for information on the dialects that were still actively spoken before 1922 but died out soon after (Roscommon, Kilkenny, Tyrone etc...)

Yes, I've got a copy of that book.

There is one book available in Kilkenny Irish full of poems I'm not sure of the name though.

"Duanaire Osraíoch" ab ea? Tá sé sin agam ach níl sé léite agam go fóill.

Lughaidh,

Can you give me a sense of the content of the book? Which regions does it cover etc?

Haigh

Here is the contents:

I. Introductory
II. CN-, GN-, etc
III. Palatal -BH-, -MH-
IV. AO
V. Mutation and non-mutation after NÁ (NACH) etc
VI. Vowels before long liquids
VII. Final -IGH
VIII. Final -ADH
IX. Final -BH, -MH
X. Accentuation
XI. The accent in Southern Irish
XII. The accent in the English of S.E. Wexford
XIII. The accent in Northern Irish
XIV. ACH
XV. Manx
XVI. Scottish
XVII. Ulster Irish and its neighbours
XVIII. Other phonetic differences
XIX. Differences in grammar and vocabulary
XX. An historical retrospect
Additions and corrections
Index of persons
Index of places
Index of words
General Index
List of phonetic symbols
Abbreviations


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All regions are covered, even dialects that are dead now.
It's a very good book, at least to begin with Gaelic dialectology. You'll find more details in Stair na Gaeilge, and of course, in the Linguistic Atlas and in monographies about specific dialects.

Cheers. I'm more interested in details of the extent of individual dialects...details on when the dialect died out etc...Sounds like this book wouldn't be appropriate.

Danny

An bfhuil tú i gCorca Dhuibhne fós?

I've just been reading that not only Wagner did business on Teelin Irish but he went to a village in Mayo and surveyed the last native speakers before they died and now its published.

I was looking in the archives on a old post on another forum that his friend was speaking to the last native speaker in Cill Moibhí where he got a few sentences out of him and he said that his Irish sounded like music so Danny there is books around about dead dialects too as far as I know Wagner did a study on this and published a book.

I've found on the web that there is a book on the Irish of Tory: ''Oileán Logainmneacha as Toraí, Tír Chonaill'' well I think its a book anyway, but it don't seem to be popular...

If I would of spent longer in Gweedore, I would of loved to have a cup of tea in a old native speakers house in the Tory Island and find out how he/she speaks their Irish. :-)

(Message edited by Trigger on August 05, 2008)

A Danny, is cuimhneach liom nuair a bhí tú ar do shaoire i gCorca Dhuibhne an tsamhraidh seo má tá suim agat sa chanúintí beo tá ''Gaeilge Chorca Dhuibhne'' ar fáil agus chualaidh mé go bhfuil an leabhar sin iontach maith ach sílim go bhfuil achan rud i nGaeilge amháin...

Tá ''Gaeilge Uladh: Ó Baoill'' agamsa agus tá sé iontach maith foghaimeóidh tú a lán leis an leabhar!

Bhfuil ’Gaeilge Chorca Dhuibhne’ ar fáil aríst?

Tá sé as-cló fá láthair b'fhéidir go mbeidh cóip nua ar fáil an bhliain seo chugainn, arsa Caitlín ar r-phost.

Ok, cib bith tá cóip agam dó anois, ach bheadh sé go maith dá mb’fhéidir é a dh’fháilt aríst, is leabhar iontach maith í. Bheadh sé millteanach maith dá ndéanfaí a leithéid do leabhar fá achan chanúint Gaeilge... Tá sí sin iontach cuimsitheach.