Years ago, I was tutored in Ulster Irish by a yank from Brooklyn. Recently, I uncovered some notes providing Ulster pronunciations of prepositional pronouns. For example,

Uaim: weem
Uaithi: wee-ha
Uatha: wee-fa

dobhtha: doo-fa.....

Now, I know that Ulster pronunciation can vary considerably from other dialects, but this seems extreme.

Can someone (Lughaidh), comment?

Also, a suggestion for a good Irish Ulster dialect course?

I'm not sure about the pronunciation you're trying to transcribe there but they look like things you'd hear in parts of Gweedore and in Teelin.

The underlying forms of these pronunciations are something like bhuaim, bhuaithe, bhuafa and daofa.
I'd transcribe their pronunciation this way (roughly):
wee-em
wee-eh-hyeh
wee-uh-fuh
dee-fuh

For a good Irish Ulster course, you'll find Irish On Your Own and Tús Maith but they teach a blend of Ulster and Standard Irish. You may "correct" that by learning stuff from 'An Teanga Bheo: Gaeilge Uladh'.

Tús maith is pretty good , but if you can get your hands on " Now you're Talking" or " Turas Teanga" , they would also be very helpful to you

I see a free course of Ulster Irish in pdf, but I don't speak irish.


Is good or bad?
Is Ulstr irish or a mixed form?


http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~hillers/BUNTUS-1.pdf
http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~hillers/BUNTUS-2.pdf

I ndiaidh spléachadh a tabhair air anois, is é mo mheas go bhfuil sé thar cinn agus tá Harvard agus an bheirt údar le moladh go mór as an saothar seo a chur ar fáil do fhoghlaimeoir eile timpeall an domhain, saor in aisce. Molann an obair na húdair agus an foras Harvard.

After a glance Mikel, I can say that it's a lot of work at the highest standard and both the authors and their institution are to praised for making such a facilitiy available to learners world wide. Is mór an gar iad.

There are something in the region of 5,000 Ulster Irishs, all good. Take your pick.

a thabhairt

to be

It's a mixed form, once again.

The PDFs teach a mixed form once again, but they are still good quality. Of course on p1 they claim "Gaeilge" is the word for Irish in Ulster Irish, thus falling at the first hurdle. But the vocab lists show they do use a lot of Ulster vocbulary, denoted with a superscript U. The notes of the dialectal section at the end of each PDF are woeful. They have no idea of the difference between Munster and Connacht and make inaccurate statements about other dialects. Their stated approach is to always use the word in more general use. So, faced with a choice between girseach and cailín,, both in use in Ulster, they choose cailín because other dialects use it. They do teach things like "sa tsiopa" and "maidin mhaith".

Ar ndóigh, ar ndóighe, ar ndóiche, ar ndóin, tá an focal 'giorsach' agus 'girseach' agus 'gearrsach' i Liatroim agus in áiteanna, áiteannaí, áiteacha, áiteachaí eile, eilí i gConnachta, i gConnachtaibh go fóill, go fóilleach, ach níl luiteamas leabhair Harvard le 'cailín', focal maith Gaeilge, le gabháil idir mé agus codladh na hoíche.

Tiocfaidh tú tríd, thríd, fríd, creidim, am éigin, inteacht, ínteach, éiginteach, éicinteach, éicineach srl.

Faced with such choice Irish must be hard to learn. Then again if anything goes it may be easy / eazie / eesie / a doddle.