[HN Gopher] A history of Ireland in 100 goodbyes ___________________________________________________________________ A history of Ireland in 100 goodbyes Author : Thevet Score : 48 points Date : 2023-10-09 22:42 UTC (1 days ago) (HTM) web link (www.irishtimes.com) (TXT) w3m dump (www.irishtimes.com) | osullish wrote: | I love that Roy Keane has 5% of these entries. Saipan was nearly | the beginning of a civil war in this country! | anotherhue wrote: | Some of these hit hard but I cannot possibly imagine anyone not | soaked in Irish culture getting many of them. | | > Yerra, they'll never shoot me in my own county | dmbche wrote: | Famous last words of this Irish-American Astronaut | | https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Collins_(astronaut) | croisillon wrote: | TIL! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Collins_(Irish_lea | der)... | Amineh wrote: | I think you linked the wrong Michael Collins: | | https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Collins_(Irish_leade. | .. | rbanffy wrote: | That was the joke part. | anotherhue wrote: | Those Spas Feiners had no honour. | vonzepp wrote: | Lovely idea of a list. But not definitive. My village song also | talks of leaving in the morning. Leaving Ireland was the natural | state for 150 years. | mtalantikite wrote: | > 4 Caoineadh Airt Ui Laoghaire | | I really enjoyed Doireann Ni Ghriofa's book that revolves around | this keen, for anyone interested: | https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/51498568 | nathell wrote: | Context: | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caoineadh_Airt_U%C3%AD_Laoghai... | | I got interested in Irish having listened to Clannad in high | school; at the uni library, I got hold of an Irish textbook, | along with a bilingual anthology of Irish poetry ('An Duanaire: | Poems of the Dispossessed', edited by Sean O Tuama) where the | Caoineadh featured prominently. | mjfl wrote: | Any chance that Irish writing could be re-phoneticized? I | tried learning Irish for fun but it was tough because all the | letters sounded in a really unexpected way. (I also think | that English should be re-phoneticized for what it's worth) | nathell wrote: | Manx orthography has gone that way. Try it out! | rbanffy wrote: | I gather they won their independence in no small part due | to infuriating the invaders with phoneticisation. | | I live in Ireland and was onde fluent in Hungarian. I laugh | at anyone who says Hungarian is the hardest language to | learn. They obviously never saw Irish. | imnotdang wrote: | [flagged] | jwmcq wrote: | I am disappointed that the "Irish goodbye" didn't happen at | around number 82 with no items following it. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2023-10-10 23:00 UTC)