#irishpost

[irishghosts]

soap with ghost & y/ns baby

[whatsthisascianbullshit]

As we approach spooky season I am begging and pleading with people to look up Actual Irish Pronunciation for Irish words.

We have some brilliant (free!) (online!) resources out there. Please.

There's the online version of one of the biggest English to Irish dictionaries (with pronunciations): focloir.ie

There's the online version of one of the biggest Irish to English dictionaries (and English to Irish, and Irish to Irish, and a grammar tool that conjugates verbs for you, and a grammar tool that'll combine nouns and adjectives for you, and pronunciations): teanglann.ie

What was one of my favourite sites to recommend for learners is abair.ie as you can put in a word or phrase or sentence and have the site say it back to you using a library of phonemes from native speakers. But they've since started using AI to smooth it out and while it's clearer to listen to based on my two checks, and you can switch back to basic synthesis, AI is the default unless you go into advanced.

And I am sure that there are more! Those are just the 3 that are the most accessible and that I used the most in uni (and in the case of the dictionaries, still continue to use along with tearma.ie and the GAY DICTIONARY An Foclóir Aiteach (at the time of writing the November 2022 edition is the newest)

But Irish is not English. Please please please stop applying English phonetics to Irish.

Sincerely, someone who just got side swiped by hearing "toodtewah-ha dedannan" for Tuatha Dé Danann. Which admittedly is new from the usual sam-haine but please.

[heartz4shauna]

i mean if you take a look at irish history and the amount of oppression irish people went through you’d THINK they’d be a bit more sensitive and respectful towards others who’re experiencing oppression but nope! irish people emigrating because of the famine is necessary and the racism they experienced is horrible but ukrainians and palestinians moving to ireland because of the wars there is disgusting and the racism they experience is deserved! obviously! if an irish person is violent and does drugs in ireland, it’s not their fault, they’re the victim! but if an immigrant is violent and does drugs they should be sent home! love the double standards here 🥰

[amoebasapph]

on my path to become the first gyaru kneecap transmasc

[gothcarmelasoprano]

as an irish person hearing jonne järvelä speaking in english and especially when drunk is somewhat jarring because it lowkey sounds like he has a culchie accent (definition because it's an irish term - can be used towards anyone that isn't from dublin but it mostly refers to people living in rural parts of ireland... in jonne's case he sounds like he could be from kerry or cork)

[sneefsnorf]

becoming irish language pilled is so funny. i see "bh" and think ah yes. the letter v

[1977-chevrolet-chevelle]

*in thick Irish accent* I'm gonnae kick ye right in the fruit loops.

[crystaluki]

Fine Gael- Ireland’s biggest political failure

Fine Gael are the biggest mistake Ireland has ever made, their list of failures:

 *Abortion

*Smear test Scandal

*Hundreds of women misdiagnosed, many dying while the government takes them to court with teams of up to 17 defence lawyers instead of helping them.

*2nd Smear Test scandal

*Children’s Hospital 1 billion over budget

*Water shortage in a country with up to 225 days of rain a year

*Housing crisis

*Homeless Crisis

*Maurice McCabe

*Irish Water

*HSE ruined

*Property Tax

*Decimation of rural Ireland

*Beef crisis

*Closing down rural post offices

*Closing down rural Gardai stations

*Closing down army barracks

*120 Irish soldiers stranded in Beirut last year

*Public water unfit for drinking

*Defence forces 1500 under strength

*Defence Forces pay crisis

*Hospital waiting lists hit 1 million

*Abolished town councils and centralised more power to government

*Shortage of doctors, nurses, consultants and hospital beds

*Shortage of schools

*Shortage of teachers

*Shortage of SNAs

*Crumbling roads and infrastructure

*Constant attacks on church

*Constant attacks on parental rights

*Mandatory RSE

*Dropping history in the Junior Cycle

*Direct Provision with no consultation

*Unlimited Genders

*PESCO

*Political gender quotas

*Teaching gender quotas

*Children under 16 abortion without parents consent

*No medical care for babies that survive abortion

*No pain relief for babies in late term abortion

*Scoliosis scandal

*Broadband scandal

*Pain Patch scandal

*Enda Kenny's pay 'cap' broken by Enda Kenny*

*Mother and Father considered offensive to be replaced with parent 1 and parent 2

*Mishandling Brexit

*76,000 Euro spent per day by HSE on Taxis

*Garda chief being escorted by armed PSNI in the republic

*Autistic children left waiting years without services

*Vulture funds

Late term abortion 

*Suicide epidemic ignored

*Pension age increased

*Tusla... where do I even start with #Tusla

 Still coming:

Hate Speech laws

EU army

Please Share help wake more people up to whats happening.

[whatsthisascianbullshit]

A quick update that daoine gorma/duine gorm is a touch outdated though to my knowledge, not offensive. And "duine de dhath" being "a person of colour" was officially added to the lexicon recently

Also to note the vast majority of people will understand "duine dubh" to mean a black person and not an evil person by context. It's just useful context to have, particularly when looking at older stories.

The joke remains really funny - I just didn't see anything about the move away from the well-intentioned but still odd terminology!

Article from addition of duine de dhath officially added to dictionary sites: https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/duine-de-dhath-new-phrase-for-person-of-colour-added-to-irish-lexicon-1.4619400

Focloir.ie definition of black, see adjective 3 "of race" includes both gorm and dubh: https://www.focloir.ie/ga/dictionary/ei/black

[badgamja]

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[heartz4shauna]

sometimes i forget that irish celebrities are actually irish people and not some glorified fairies that happen to be from the same place as me

[amoebasapph]

irish drag queen called "miss the bus"

[finnlongman]

I've got your back, werewolfetone, I will acknowledge your Irishposting

The thing they don't tell you about getting really into one specific historical period is that very quickly every conversation turns into an attempt to avoid sounding like the "horribly wet in wexford today but not as bad as in the 690s" tweet

[newtechstudent]

Eire 🇮🇪🌱🌿☘️🍀🌾🍃🍁 #irishstamps #eirestamps #irishpost #irishpostcards #irishpostcard #stamp #stamps #irishhistory #anpost #irishartists #irishart #irishartist #irishartgallery #irishartistsofinstagram #fern #ferns #irishfern #fernsofireland #wildplants #wildplant #irishbiologist #irishforest #irishforestry (w: Ha'penny Bridge, Dublin, Ireland) https://www.instagram.com/p/CGHe5guHHbR/?igshid=c3vq7d7ten7s

[livesunderalog]

my beloved…

[grootficguy]

you can poison our crops, genocide us, enslave us, take over our land and try to kill our language, but by god you colonising bastards will never take away the taste of all our ma’s stews