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  We should have audiobooks of the Irish books we make kids study on the Junior cert. I made a list here of Irish language audiobooks I thi...

I have moaned a lot about the lack of books with Irish and English text and Irish audio. But how much would it cost to fix this? An hour of ...

In 1989 a newspaper report said 'Entire nations could be wiped off the face of the earth by rising sea levels if the global warming tre...

The Irish sports commentator Jimmy Magee was famous for his encyclopedic memory of sports facts. And not just stories he would use during co...

I have noticed watching Ros na Rún has improved my Irish but how much could it really help? Ros na Rún has 82 episodes a series each about ...

 It feels like Ireland cannot do much to help Ukraine in its fight with Russia. But I think that we can by bribing Russian pilots to defect ...

We need a 3 meter high place to stand on. A 5km long lake. And a 2 meter tall line of lights. And here is why. How would you show the earth ...

An Béal Bocht   is considered one of the classics of literature from Ireland. And of the Irish language in particular. It is a satire of the...

  I discussed in my last post about how a book in 3 formats English, Irish and the Audio in Irish is a great way to learn the language. And...

My last post was about why we would want books in Irish and English that also had audio. This post is about how we can get them to people W...

You pass loads of clues everyday to the geography and history around you. And until recently I had not been paying attention. I made a map a...

The last post here was about how many words you would have to read in Irish to have seen a particular  number of unique words.  What books ...

How much text would you have to understand to get a good understanding of a language? There is a formula to estimate how many unique words ...

I have been watching Ros na Rún. Mainly because I am a messy bitch that lives for drama but also to learn Irish. The subtitles are really hi...

 I made a claim that I would learn the 625 words in the Fluent Forever list in Irish over the weekend. And I did it. Learn means lots of t...

  The furthest south a chemical element has been discovered is Bikini Atoll at 11.6° N where after a 1952 nuclear test  Einsteinium and Ferm...

  I watched this video I learned 1000 foreign words in one day   Could I do the same with the 625 words deck I made and described in my las...

  I really enjoyed the book fluent forever and decided to use the method to learn a language. One of the ideas in the is to learn 625 common...

 There is a version of Wordle for Irish called Foclach   Matt Parker has a youtube video working out how many five letter word combinations ...

In Moby Dick he writes 'upon one particular voyage which I made to the Pacific, among many others we spoke thirty different ships, ev...