Why am I getting Russian ads displayed in my sidebar such as the one on the left there? The website is Finnish … the ad displayed presumably because my ISP is Finnish. Mmkay, makes sense. But why isn’t the ad text displayed in Finnish or English then, especially when the website itself defaults to English [...]
“Yu Ming is ainm dom” is possibly the most famous short Irish language film around. Maybe it’s because it’s award winning (won about 8 million awards), maybe because it’s a very well made nice story or maybe because of the message it sends about the Irish language. It seems to have gotten a lot more [...]
Was having a few pints the other night, Casey’s Cream Ale to be exact, when I noticed the Casey’s logo on the glass with the following written underneath… An beer is deasa sá domhain Hmm, must be a Kent dialect … it’s marketed as “Caseys of Waterford” but is apparently brewed by Shepherd Neame.
The rise of An tImeall continues. It’s not enough to be writing for Lá now Conn has gone a step further and achieved radio syndication! Some of you may have gotten this press release from Conn Ó Muíneacháin this morning, if not here’s the full release in English agus as Gaeilge.
Congratulations to you Conn!!
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NEWS RELEASE: First Irish Podcast to Achieve Radio Syndication
An tImeall, the daily podcast in the Irish language, today becomes the first independent Irish podcast to cross-over to traditional radio, as it begins a syndicated run on Galway city’s college community station, Flirt FM. The 15 minute show will air each weekday at 5:30pm
This will probably be covered by a few blogs today. “An EU study has reportedly found that Irish people have poorer linguistic skills than the citizens of any other member state.” It doesn’t come as any real surprise does it? “two-thirds of Irish people questioned as part of the research admitted they could only speak [...]
Deadly. I was just checking the weather forecast on Wunderground.com and noticed that the website is available in Irish (the standard site menus/headers)! Excellent, it’s quite rare to see international sites in Irish, apart from Google or the like. (Welsh is there too) Btw, unless your browser language is Irish you’ll need to set the [...]
Beidh aistear fada romhainn amárach, tógfaidh sé sé uair an chloig sa charr, ar a laghad. Rachaidh muid ó thuaidh go dtí teach mháthair mo bhanchara. Beidh mé ar ais ar líne ar an gCéadaoin seo chugainn, go dtí sin tugaigí aire daoibh féin agus tóg bog é! Tá súil agam go mbeidh Nollaig deas [...]
I’m delighted to be one of the first to announce the release of a new Irish language search engine, Aimsigh.com. What makes this search engine so special is that it only indexes Irish language documents. It also includes some advanced features special to the language such as ignoring mutations and dealing with non-standard spellings. The [...]
Firefox 1.5 has just been released! Unfortunately the Irish version is not out yet, it was due to be released at the same time but it hasn’t been cleared by the relevant pers in Mozilla as far as I know. Hopefully we’ll have it soon. You’ll notice that they’ve also done some work on the [...]
Slugger O’Toole have a new Irish language blogger, Cathal O Foirreidh. Mick had previously mentioned to me that perhaps I could contribute some Irish posts to Slugger [since I spend so much time there anyway] but with my remedial Irish there was never a chance, so I’m delighted to see Cathal taking this role. If [...]