Irish Language Sinn Féin election broadcast Videos

Gaeilgeoir Says:

Oct 12, 2008 - Ná bíodh muid ar an nglúin dheiridh de chainteoirí dúchasacha

jd24717 Says:

Oct 12, 2008 - I know it's the native language...but it's funny. It sounds like someone speaking English words, only the words are different.

bairen2002 Says:

Oct 12, 2008 - Wherever he learnt his Irish, Mr Adams still sounds like a Belfast man speaking in the Belfast manner.He doesn't sound like someone from Donegal.jd24717 is quite right. It sounds like someone speaking Belfast English, only the words are different.

Lunoma Says:

Oct 12, 2008 - I never said he sounded like sb from Donegal but he learnt Ulster Irish which is primarily focused on the dialects still natively spoken in Donegal as there exists a Gaeltacht there. Of course, he gonna sound similar well lets see. The English spoken in Ireland is hiberno-English the dialects of English are influenced byt the accents already in place! not the other way around...

jd24717 Says:

Oct 12, 2008 - You can be Irish without speaking Irish. As long as you love your country. But the Irish language is very nice.

11381337 Says:

Oct 12, 2008 - Isnt this Irish native language called Gaelic?

ilovejohnmc Says:

Oct 12, 2008 - The Irish Native Language is called Irish. Bunreacht Na hÉireann, The Constition of Ireland, Defines the National Official Language as Irish. "Gaelic" is used to refer to either Irish (as in the Irish for the language: Gaeilge) or the Gaelic Languages, A Branch Of Celtic Languages Including Irish and Scottish Gaelic.

PolTorboid Says:

Oct 12, 2008 - so what your saying is, he should put on a bit more of an irish accent? cus hes speaking in the irish tongue?thats ridiculous. hes from belfast, of course hes gonna speak in a belfast accent.

dawudislam Says:

Oct 12, 2008 - and Manx Gaelg!

Spamoy12 Says:

Oct 12, 2008 - Interesting, both an English and Irish Language version.

pnoozi Says:

Oct 12, 2008 - It's crazy how two languages (English and Gaelic) can develop side by side geographically yet be so different.

derekdebilge Says:

Oct 12, 2008 - Shame Fein only decided to abandon the armed struggle when the loyalist paramilitaries stepped up their murder rate of catholics.When will Gerry Adams collect his knighthood from the Queen of England I wonder?Gerry Adams is a treacherous turd

Seamus616 Says:

Oct 12, 2008 - Look at it in the loyalists view,a chara.Imagine how they feel? They are sharing power with what they once described as "irish terrorists". they surrendered to irish terrorists. thats a huge achievement lad.

Seamus616 Says:

Oct 12, 2008 - no my friend. English developed from German, the foundations were laid for English long before it was spoken in the British isles! :)

pnoozi Says:

Oct 12, 2008 - Ahhh, makes sense

SeanOBriain Says:

Oct 12, 2008 - Dún do bhéal. Sinn Féin knew that in order to achieve irish unity, the only viable means is through peace and taking everyone into account. SF recently secured 6 million in funding for the Irish language and is pressing for Acht na Gaeilge. What are the other groups doing for the language? Infact, where were all the republican groups for the Lisbon treaty? Sinn Féin was the only group to walk door to door. You're well able to criticise SF, but what are you doing instead?Sinn Féin abú.

SeanOBriain Says:

Oct 12, 2008 - Actually, it's gaeilge. Irish is the english term for the language.

MidnightFantasy1 Says:

Oct 12, 2008 - Gerry Adams has the funny manner. All Ulsterman do, My great grandparents, grandparents nd parents both say how they have the funny manner, i never understood what it was until my teacher explaind that diferent societies nd cultures have ways of acting, mannerisms and etc. and since the Ulster had mass migrations of welsh, scottish and english people, their mannerisms interacted.Hence forming the Funny Manner ^_^.lol but i beleive the term is dieing out in the east, still abit alive in the west

bairen2002 Says:

Oct 12, 2008 - So Ireland should be a unitary state because it is an island?Can we apply the same argument to the island of Great Britain?Let's get rid of the Scottish Assembly, and the Welsh assembly.Oh, and we should get them all to speak only Welsh, as that is the language closest to what was spoken before the Roman invasion.I include in that all the people of Irish descent who live on the "big island".Ireland for the Irish, Britain for the British, and all the Paddies can go home!

bairen2002 Says:

Oct 12, 2008 - It's a wonderful unity they'll achieve!And an even more wonderful independence!Dublin and Belfast, along with London, have surrendered their sovereignty to Brussels and the EU bureaucrats.In a few more years, so-called national governments will have less say in running their own affairs than to-day's county councils. They'll organise the street sweeping, the rubbish collection and the public library, and that will be the sum of it.

slickskillet123 Says:

Oct 12, 2008 - i believe you are right !

boomhehe Says:

Oct 12, 2008 - not every1 has to speak irish.. tho yeah i wud like to.. but i wish it was united.

TomBarry192I Says:

Oct 12, 2008 - Cos majority on the island want to unite it

gianmerlo Says:

Oct 12, 2008 - Ireland great nation, irish great people.

bluecherrypie Says:

Oct 12, 2008 - Sounds a little like English. Beautiful language.