St. John's farmer was last who could speak Leinster dialect

"ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - A St. John's man believed to be the last speaker of an obscure dialect of the Irish language died Wednesday morning. Aloysius O'Brien was 93."

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If this is true that is very interesting, it would of been good if he would of done recordings of words of how he pronounces and sentences, I wish there was some records of Kildare Irish (Kildare where I am from) but Kildare Irish is completely gone.

Well, it sounds like he was quite active with the language. He received an honorary doctorate from Memorial University so I'm guessing there are recordings.

There must be students of his kicking around too.

You may be interested, Trigger, in a book called 'Dialect in East and Mid-Leinster: Gaelic Survivals' (1930) by a scholar called Donn Piatt. He used the word 'survivals' because he was dealing with Irish words and placenames in English dialects - Irish had long gone from the areas he was investigating. I seem to remember that there's some Kildare material there.

Tá sé socraithe agam anois taisteal go dtí Talamh an Éisc Mí Meitheamh nó Iúil seo chugainn agus buaileadh leis na gcainteoirí deireadh dúchais agus taifeadadh a dhéanamh.

Well I have always wanted to travel to Newfoundland and meet the last Irish speakers there and now I've decided to go , meet them and record them for posterity. Anyone interested in a week in Newfoundland starting in St John's then Avalon Peninsula?

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