patterns of language
Come along -- to a world of new experiences! The following texts, prepared by the historical linguist Myles Dillon , offer the opportunity to learn spoken Irish as heard in Western County Cork in the Munster Gaeltacht, in the south of Ireland. His lessons generally followed a grammatical theme but because of his special attention to the spoken language gives a detailed description of this one particular dialect. His lessons also offer a good introduction to delve into literary Irish such as in the novel Séadna by Peadar Ua Laoghaire, and all the necessary rules of sentence structure, sound changes, and so on to be used as a reference grammar. Audio by native speakers has been included in another section. My own notes from my 1990s website on gaoluinn.xoom.com have been appended to the lessons where they are complete. Find out now about the counties, the people and the Irish language!
