Place names in Irish

Common words found in Irish place names include: Ard- ard - 'high' Ath- átha - 'ford' Bally- baile - 'town' Bel- béal - 'mouth' Carry/Carrick- carraig - 'rock' Clon- Cluain - a meadow Dun- dún - 'fort' Glas- glas - 'green' Glen- Gleann - a valley Kil- cill - church Knock- cnocSee also:

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Irish language - Stages of the Irish language. The introduction of Irish to Ireland dates from some time after 1200 BC.2 The earliest form of the language, Primitive Irish, is found in ogham inscriptions up to about the 4th centuryAD. After the conversion to Christianity, Old Irish begins to appear as glosses in the margins of Latin manuscripts, beginning in the 6th century, until it gives way in the 10th century to Middle Irish. Modern Irish dates from about the 16th century. < ...

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See main article Irish dialects. There are a number of distinct dialects of Irish. Roughly speaking, the three major dialect areas coincide with the provinces of Munster (Cúige Mumhan), Connacht (Cúige Chonnacht) and Ulster (Cúige Uladh). Irish language - Munster dialects. Munster Irish is spoken in the Gaeltachtaí of Kerry (Contae Chiarraí), Muskerry (Múscraí), Cape Clear (Oileán Cléire) in the western part of County Cork (Contae Chorcaí ...

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There are a number of distinct dialects of Irish. Roughly speaking, the three major dialect areas coincide with the provinces of Munster (Cúige Mumhan), Connacht (Cúige Chonnacht) and Ulster (Cúige Uladh). Irish language - Munster dialects. Main article: Munster Irish Munster Irish is spoken in the Gaeltachtaí of Kerry (Contae Chiarraí), Muskerry (Múscraí), Cape Clear (Oileán Cléire) in the western part of County Cork (Contae ...

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The Irish language is a compulsory subject in schools in government funded schools in the Republic of Ireland and has been so since the early days of the state. More students fail Irish at Leaving Certificate[citation needed] than in any other language. The reasons given are lack of interest and sheer difficulty. There is a degree of apathy among students regarding Irish, particularly as it is seen as by some as dead language. It is also seen as backward, and, to a certain extent, primitive by schoolchildren[ ...

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The Irish language is a compulsory subject in schools in government funded schools in the Republic of Ireland and has been so since the early days of the state. In modern days, the language is derided by most students[citation needed] and more students fail Irish at Leaving Certificate[citation needed] than in any other language. The reasons given are lack of interest and sheer difficulty. There is a degree of apathy among students regarding Irish, particularly as it is seen as by some as dead langu ...

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1Article in the Irish Independent. 2 J.P.Mallory Two Perspectives on the Problem of Irish Origins Emania 9(1991)53, at 58: "The lexical evidence of the Irish language suggests that it was introduced into Ireland most plausibly after c.1200 BC and any attempt to set the arrival of the Irish before this date becomes increasingly difficult to sustain ... I find it difficult to imagine it as anything other than a language introduced by a population movement rather than a lingua franca o ...

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The Irish language is a subject compulsory in schools, and has been since Ireland gained independence. In modern days, the language is derided by most students and more students fail Irish at Leaving Certificate than in any other language. The reasons given are lack of interest and sheer difficulty. There is an apathy among students regarding Irish, particularly as it is seen as a dead language. It is also seen as backward, and, to a certain extent, primitive by schoolchildren. At a time when even the Irish influence on the English language is dying out due to American affectation ...

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There are pockets of Ireland where Irish is spoken as a traditional, native language. These regions are known as the Gaeltacht. These are in County Galway (Contae na Gaillimhe), including Connemara (Conamara) and the Aran Islands (na hOileáin Árann); on the west coast of County Donegal (Contae Dhún na nGall; in the part which is known as Tyrconnell/Tír Chonaill); and Corca Dhuibhne on the Dingle peninsula in County Kerry (Contae Chiarraí). Smaller ones also exist in Mayo (Contae ...

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Irish is given recognition by the Constitution of Ireland as the first official language of the Republic of Ireland (with English being a second official language), despite the limited distribution of fluency among the population of that country. Since the State was founded in the 1920s as the Irish Free State (see also History of the Republic of Ireland), the Irish Government required a degree of proficiency in Irish for all civil service positions (including postal workers, tax officials, agricultural inspectors, etc.), as well as f ...

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Irish language - In English. The language is sometimes referred to in English as Gaelic (IPA: /ˈgeɪlɪk/), or Irish Gaelic. This has generally been the common name for the language in the Irish diaspora. Within Ireland proper, it has inevitably acquired political significance. Referring to the language as "Gaelic" suggests that the language is as distant and unrelated to modern Irish life as the civilization of the ancient Gaels. Calling it ...

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The features most unfamiliar to English speakers of the language are the orthography, the initial consonant mutations, the Verb Subject Object word order, and the use of two different forms for "to be". However, initial mutations are found in other Celtic languages as well as in some Italian and Sardinian dialects, as an independent development. They are also found in some West African languages. Irish language - Syn ...

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The number of native Irish-speakers in the Republic of Ireland today is a tiny fraction of what it was at independence. The Official Languages Act of 2003 gave people the right to interact with state bodies in Irish. It is too early to assess how well this is working in practice. Other factors were outward migration of Irish speakers from the Gaeltacht and inward migration of English-speakers. The Planning and Development Act (2000) attempted to address the latter issue, but the response is almost certainly inadequate. Planning controls now ...

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Placename etymology - By Continent. The ancient Romans used the name Africa terra --- "land of the Afri" (plural, or "Afer" singular) --- for the northern part of the continent, corresponding to modern-day Tunisia. The origin of Afer may be the Phoenician afar, dust; the Afridi tribe, who dwelt in Northern Africa around the area of Carthage; Greek aphrike< ...

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The four provinces (cúigí - singular: cúige) are known as: Connacht - Connacht(a) / Cúige Chonnacht - meaning "Conn's land" Munster - An Mhumhain / Cúige Mumhan - meaning "Land of Mumha's men" Leinster - Laighin / Cúige Laighean - meaning "Land of Broad Spears" Ulster - Ulaidh / Cúige Uladh - meaning "Land of Ulaid's men" The word cúige originally meant 'a fifth', as in one-fifth part of Ireland, and comes from the fact that Meath, as seat of the High King of ...

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