Irish opens magical doors
When you learn Irish, you don’t just get a language – you get access to a whole hidden culture. You get to belong to an old and beautiful country in a new and exciting way.
And it’s not as hard as some people say. You just have to learn words, and learn the edges between words – how they fit into each other. That’s exactly what we do for you, with our little word game.
You hear something in English, you say it in Irish, you hear it in Irish.
We take care of everything else – all the timings for revision, all the variations to get you used to the edges. All you have to do is keep showing up, listen to something in English and (as it says on the tin!) say something in Irish.
Interesting Irish facts!
Irish, the first official language of Ireland, has some interesting facts:
- In Irish, the language is called Gaeilge, while in English, it is referred to as Irish, not Gaelic, since Gaelic also refers to other Goidelic languages such as Scottish Gaelic or Manx.
- Dara Ó Briain, Brendan Gleeson, and Cillian Murphy all speak Irish!
- The earliest examples of written Irish date back to the sixth century A.D.
- When primary education was introduced in Ireland, similar to Wales, Irish children were punished for speaking their native language in the classroom.
- The world’s first Irish language newspaper, An Gaodhal, was published in New York City in 1881 by Mícheál Ó Lócháin, an immigrant teacher. It continued its publication until 1904.
