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Beannachtaí na Féile Pádraig oraibh!
Bain sult as na foinn seo agus tú ag caitheamh siar ar Éirinn.
Happy St. Patricks Day!
Enjoy these tunes while tipping one back for Ireland.
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Drunken Sailor’s Hornpipe
Teach Tábhairne Mhaillí Ní Dhuibh – Molly Black’s Tavern
Musical Priest S
Morning Star
Sleepy Maggie
#Gaeilge #StPatrickDay #theMadMaggies
Around we go again. Here’s hoping that 2018 moves us forwards as a species — more compassion, more critical thinking, more action, less talk, less religion. A gal can dream.
Gary and I send out a New Year’s greeting to family and friends every year with a light-hearted selfie. When putting together this year’s greeting, I got to wondering how many times have we have done that. Looks like, we’ve been at it for 17 years – 2002-2018. Oh my. So, for fun I put together a super short video to share those seventeen seasonal selfies. (Who says to avoid alliteration?)
In Quebec, one can use the word selfie — everyone knows what that is — but the “official” word is un égoportrait.
The tune underscoring the video is “L’Amour Persiste” from our latest album “Naked Ladies“.
Snow fell on Monday, November 21, 2016 here in Montreal — the first snowfall of the season. For this Montreal minute, I take you along on my walk, in that snow, through the streets of our arrondissement (district) “Rosemont-La Petite Patrie” to my exercise class at the local “Energie-Cardio”.
I love walking in the snowy weather. The trick is to dress right. As the old Scandinavian saying goes: There’s no bad weather, only bad clothes.
A quick search on the web and I found this fun bit of language info.
In Swedish/Norwegian the word for “weather” rhymes with the word for “clothes”.
Swedish: Det finns inget dåligt väder, bara dåliga kläder
Norwegian: Det finnes ikke dårlig vær, bare dårlige klær
On dit en français, «Il n’y a pas de mauvais temps, juste des mauvais vêtements. »
I have been learning Irish for several years now. I don’t have as much time as I’d like to devote to it but I don’t let that stop me from persisting. Little by little, a word here and there, and now this crazy language doesn’t look quite as strange as when I first started to tackle it.
My longtime tutor and fellow learner sent me this one panel today. It gave me a much needed giggle. Of course, I had to work out the grammar and vocabulary.
Déanta na fírinne = Actually / In fact
is lú an bhuairt a chuireann = is less concerning
hionróirí seo ón spás = these invaders from space
ná = than
an ceannaire = the leader
a bhfuilimid á dtabhairt chuige. = to whom we are taking them.
Actually, these invaders from space are less troubling than the leader we’re taking them to.
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