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Learn living Irish for St. Patrick's day. Learn greetings, ask how people are. a little small talk! It's your heritage!

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@WatchdogTh96012 72,000 speak irish daily outside education.

750,000 speak a language other than Irish or English at home.

Checkout https://t.co/K1bEvgx4k0 to make sure that the Irish number rises before Census May 2027.

A few words a day. Let's show our language lives.

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Dancing, our mythology and legends, our language, our ways.

Keep it alive so the next generations will understand.

And hopefully they too will be guardians of what it means to be Irish.

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Now in Irish. Practice slowly, get used to the sounds. Maybe find a friend to practice with.

John: Dee a gwit, Noelle.

Noelle: Cun-is ah-taw too, John?

John: Taw may go ma. Ba-wake-us la Dee-a.
Ah-gus too feign?

Noelle: Taw may go ma. Ba-wake-us la Dee-a, John.

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John: Hello Noelle

Noelle: How are you John?

John: I'm good thank God. And yourself?

Noelle: I'm Good thank God, John.

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4. Only polite to ask how the other person is. And it's nice and short.

Ah-gus too feign

It means "And yourself".

Now let's put that together in English and then in Irish. Let's have John and Noelle meet up.....

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3. Now for a pure Irish reply. Pronounced differently north and south, west and east. Let's give it a go. This has two parts so take it at a nice slow pace.

Taw may go ma

Ba-wake-us la Dee-a

I'm good, thanks be to God!

One more and we have a "good enough" mini conversation!

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Irish Lessons have started under my profile for Saint Patrick's Day, all welcome.

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2. cun-is ah-taw too

Again, say it loud a few times and listen to the sound of your ancestors.

cun-is ah-taw too

How are you?

cun-is ah-taw too

Give yourself a few minutes, picture welcoming an old friend in next to a warm fire.

cun-is ah-taw too

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First lesson. Read the phrase -out loud-, repeat a few times, try to get a little faster.

1. Dee a go-with

A tiny bit quicker to sound like

Dee a gwit!

That's a way to say hello!
Say it Proud! Share it loud!

Happy....
#stpatricksday

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There she is. Landing 100 years ago tomorrow.

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To remember Sarah, let's learn our first conversation in Irish for St.Patrick's Day

A basic hello, how are you, I'm fine, and goodbye.

As good as any place to start. I'll give the pronunciations and see what we can do in the next two days.

Are u in?

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The love story.☘️ Sarah met a man from Donegal.
James. He was known as "The Iron Man" and they settled in NY and were blessed with children. Though both are no longer with us, their grandchildren make up a part of our diaspora.
How to commemorate Sarah on the 100th anniversary?

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Sarah walked off the Westphalia On Patrick's day 1929, almost 100 years ago. This Irish and English speaker went to find her sister and her new life.

Of course there is a love story, coming next.
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The American wake became a powerful and poignant symbols of Irish emigration.

A funeral while the person stood there. Tears and songs, music and stories, late in to the night.

Early next morning, a quiet walk to the crossroads, father standing at the gate, holding back tears.

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Immigration wrote "who paid for her passage?", "Sister".

That detail will resonate with many diaspora. A hard decision, a few loans called in, a farm animal sold, to finance the first child out. Knowing their child will be gone from them.

Then the "American wake".

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She was joined on board by others listed as from Mayo, Sligo, Roscommon, Tipperary, Cork and Kerry.

Sarah was described by immigration in NY as 5'7" with a fresh complexion, fair hair and blue eyes.

With $50 in her purse, a case of clothes, a sister to find in New York City.

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Knocknagoshel on to Cobh in Co.Cork. Boarding the ship "Westphalia" on the 6th March 1926.

Slán. Goodbye to home and the familiar fields and faces of her youth. The ship passed the coast of Kerry.

The beginning of an Irish-American story.
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In a small farmhouse in Knockbrack, Knocknagoshel, Co. Kerry, a girl named Sarah grew up around 1911.

Her mother Hannah kept the home.
Her father Thomas worked the land.

They spoke Irish and English. Languages Sarah took with her to New York.
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Sara was from a homestead in Knochnagosel, in County Kerry. A St. Patrick's Day emigrant to New York, she has a story to tell.

I'll take you through that story, come with me, let's walk with Sara.

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On St. Patrick’s Day, 1926, a young Irish girl named Sarah Cotter stepped onto the docks of New York.

She carried a suitcase, a family name, and the courage the Irish call "misneach".

Somewhere in America tonight, her story is still being lived.

More of her story to come.

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This St. Patrick's day, book your chance to begin learning the language of our heritage.
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