Peig speaking English. Interesting accent.
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Has a hint of a Scottish or Scandinavia lilt in there.
She was no good at the English but still didn’t manage to say ‘like’ once.
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Sounds like old people from Connemara I knew back in the day. The use of “the” before “English”, “Irish” is proper original Hiberno English.
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An old colleague in Mary I, Brain Clancy, has written lots on hiberno English… He’s a cunning linguist. Not sure if anything is freely available online but you can give a Google if the topic tickles your fancy.
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Good man.
This came up.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/265333174_The_pragmatics_of_Irish_English
This is another article about how the language you speak shapes how you think and see the world because of how a language is structured. I remember years ago reading that English makes it harder to imagine yourself old or in the future but is better for describing events as they happen.
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That’s sounds uncannily like Ashutosh telling me about the logical leaps he undertook when coding the integration to the MrAccounting finance system.
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Nothing cheap about this car rental quote……Ouch!!!
If ye ever get stuck in Cardiff
Cardiff is a dump. I’d sooner a week in Long Kesh
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Fuck Cardiff
Oh I know. That’s why I said “stuck”
There’s not a great deal to do bar drink.
Similar to Dublin really.
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Far more in Dublin I’d argue though both a ripoff
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A great woman, her story was completely wasted on the youth, a fascinating life, a great storyteller
There’s the graveyard and the jail.
On a par with portlaoise so
Sounds like a threat, officer.
Herself had an enquiry there last week from a Yank relative, asking for recommendations for his lady friend to pass a weekend in Dublin.
After 10 minutes we had:
The Guinness Museum
The Jameson Museum
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Book of Kells should be top of anyone’s list but it’s probably €50 for a 10 minute your. Is Kilmainham jail open as a tour?
I’d suggest Howth and Howth Head.
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