building on another post by another learner, is there any good reading material available for the Ulster dialect, and, as a learner, would reading munster be all that bad? any help appreciated!!

"Bad" as in more difficult: yes, somewhat. (How much more difficult depends on the writer - and on the editor.)

"Bad" as in detrimental to your own Irish: nah, go for it. Your cultivated Ulsterity may wobble a bit but it'll straighten itself out within a few weeks... and in the meantime your Irish will have been greatly improved.

I say read what you want to read and hang the dialects! If you're motivated enough, you'll make it through the Munsteriest Munstriness out there.

the Munsteriest Munstriness out there.

Cad ab é sin? Gaeilge an Athar Peadair? Canúint scríofa na mBlascaodach? Nó b'fhéidir an chuid atá san fhilíochta Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill?

Táim féin ag foghlaim Gaeilge na Mumhan den chuid is mó agus is deacair liom a mheas cé acu an Muimhneachas is mó Muimhní.