Irish Language

M’asal beag dubh

When I was in school learning Irish this is the way that we wrote the words. The Irish language has been in decline for many years and various attempts have been made to revise interest and get people to use it. One of the ways was to change this script into a modern script. It might be a bit late in the day, but my brother and I are finally going to learn it. We already have a cúpla focail. 


Pádraic Ó Conaire (28 February 1882 – 6 October 1928) was an Irish writer and journalist whose production was primarily in the Irish language. In his lifetime he wrote 26 books, 473 stories, 237 essays and 6 plays. His acclaimed novel Deoraíocht has been described by Angela Bourke as 'the earliest example of modernist fiction in Irish.