Comment by Ryan O'Rourke on August 12, 2013 at 2:18am

Wow, Mickey.  Just wow.  You clearly have some serious and deep-rooted issues with Ireland and its language.  I suppose the next thing you're going to tell me is that The Penal Laws didn't actually exist ... that they were a figment of Éamon de Valera's mind.  You can go on continuing to hate every aspect of genuine Irish culture, but you're not going to choke out the pride and appreciation for it by most people who frequent this site.

Founding Member Comment by Nollaig 2016 on August 12, 2013 at 1:24pm

Can we get a WG team together for this?

Comhrá 24/7 attempt to break world record for longest Irish language chat

Read more: http://www.irishcentral.com/roots/Comhra-247-attempt-to-break-world... 

Gaeilgeoir Comment by Bernie Joyce on August 12, 2013 at 5:59pm

Mickey I have listened to your twisted views on my country and culture and have not past comment on the insults you have posted because they are beneath me. But I will not let you get away with insulting children. Shame on you. 

Comment by mickey mcadden on August 12, 2013 at 8:01pm

"Wow, Mickey.  Just wow.  You clearly have some serious and deep-rooted issues with Ireland and its language.  I suppose the next thing you're going to tell me is that The Penal Laws didn't actually exist ... that they were a figment of Éamon de Valera's mind.  You can go on continuing to hate every aspect of genuine Irish culture, but you're not going to choke out the pride and appreciation for it by most people who frequent this site."

I don't have anything other than the highest regard for English speaking Irish people who are not drugged on this Dr Hyde nightmare. As for hating, I hate the lies of the banana republic machine such as Charlie and the rest of them,  and I hate the bad irish Gaelic I hear coming out of folks who learned it off some jackass from Balygobackwards. But if you were to ask me about the music of the native speakers themselves I would have to say it is very nice if a little gone away with literary neglect.

Next you need to get off your high horse and stop imagining that Gaelic Ireland is all there is, or ever was. It isn't and it wasn't.

Besides those, and aferwards, there also came to the Island, Norse, Danes and French men. The last lot that came were the English But before them there was a fine race of people here too, their descendents can still be seen among the Irish population. Go get a DNA test, you could be more Fir whatever than Celt..

So your complaining is that of JUST one crowd that came in, grabbed all they could, forced the natives to speak their lingo, and as Mr Savage put it, rode everything in sight, and still do! But the fact of the matter is this, Gaelic people are not a majority in the Island these days, and will soon be forgotten along with this so called Irish language, Gaelic.

For my money English is the language of the Island these days, and it is that which is the winner over the other languages that were in it before.

Penal laws. Oh what pain can there be! And you think that the English did not punish their own the same over land and the rest of it? Have you ever heard of the clearances in England and Scotland? As for Wales, what can I say. I am ASHAMED of the Irish today that do not know a thing about Welsh history. Enough for now, but like the Joyce warrant, I will deal with that matter later.

Well when the O Shladerachans beat the stuffing out of the O Bleatherachans way back in the day, there was little mercy for the weak. I read that such clan wars often took children as hostage, raped the women, burned the dwellings etc etc.

So I say that the English did Ireland a favor by ridding us of such neanderthal barbarity Today Ireland ( thank G_d ) is a nation of mixed race, mostly British by blood, and has a modern language the envy of the world, the English language. All it lacks is the sense to see that Dr Hyde's nightmare is just that, and to waken the blazes up by closing down the money wasting, time wasting, people wasting, Gealteacht's that are a mockery of the majority of Irish men and women today who's hard earned money is by tax wasted upon them.

As Lahras used say in those comics - Slan.

Nice word it must like 'Craic', to be added to my lovely English dictionary.

Comment by Ryan O'Rourke on August 13, 2013 at 6:55am

It's just amusing me at this point.

Gaeilgeoir Comment by Bernie Joyce on August 13, 2013 at 3:27pm

The Gaeltacht people and I are tax payers to. The more insults you post the weaker your argument becomes.In a debate such as this everyone is entitled to have an opinion and disagree with each other but I suspect your motives for joining this site are to show your contempt for us. Therefor you do not deserve anymore of my attention and remember you are what you post.  

Comment by Gerard Cappa on August 13, 2013 at 4:25pm

Bernie

On one hand you have crowds of young, lively, motivated, enthusiastic, creative young people.

On the other hand you have the confused ramblings of a malcontent with an enormous chip on his shoulder. 

I know which one is to be celebrated, and which one to be ignored (well, maybe pitied).

Gaeilgeoir Comment by Bernie Joyce on August 13, 2013 at 6:05pm

Well said Gerard.

Comment by Bit Devine on August 25, 2013 at 9:38am

Sour grapes much, Mickey? How dare you insult all of the fine, richly articulate, diverse and talented individuals who call NWG home. Even more so, how dare you insult children...

Our children, no matter their socio-economic background are the pulse of Ireland's future. We should raise them to be proud of the culture they were born to and that includes the native language, IRISH. We should also teach them the tools that they will need to succeed in this modern technical world. I am not clear as to why you think that is impossible along with teaching them heritage, language and culture.

Once upon a time in America, the Native people were forced to give up their languages and assimilate into the usurper's culture. For decades, there has been a resurgence of Native culture and language.

Until 2008, I had the ability to speak Irish, Spanish, Cherokee and American Sign Language, along with English. I grew up celebrating the uniqueness and similarities of each culture that make up my DNA: Mexican, Irish, Sicilian. 

What boggles the mind, is all of this pro-British pap you spew. You did take a good look at the make up of this membership, before joining, didn't you?

Pitied, Ger, mo chara...perhaps...ignored will be my choice after this one comment...silence is the perfect expression of scorn after all

chomh fada agus breathe mé .. Gaeilge ina gcónaí i na focail a labhairt liom

Comment by mickey mcadden on August 25, 2013 at 4:33pm

"our grapes much, Mickey? How dare you insult all of the fine, richly articulate, diverse and talented individuals who call NWG home. Even more so, how dare you insult children...

Our children, no matter their socio-economic background are the pulse of Ireland's future. We should raise them to be proud of the culture they were born to and that includes the native language, IRISH. We should also teach them the tools that they will need to succeed in this modern technical world. I am not clear as to why you think that is impossible along with teaching them heritage, language and culture.

Once upon a time in America, the Native people were forced to give up their languages and assimilate into the usurper's culture. For decades, there has been a resurgence of Native culture and language.

Until 2008, I had the ability to speak Irish, Spanish, Cherokee and American Sign Language, along with English. I grew up celebrating the uniqueness and similarities of each culture that make up my DNA: Mexican, Irish, Sicilian. 

What boggles the mind, is all of this pro-British pap you spew. You did take a good look at the make up of this membership, before joining, didn't you?

Pitied, Ger, mo chara...perhaps...ignored will be my choice after this one comment...silence is the perfect expression of scorn after all

chomh fada agus breathe mé .. Gaeilge ina gcónaí i na focail a labhairt liom"

As a matter of fact I did not read your website at all before I joined it. I get the news from RTE and the BBC, like a lot of Irish born, Irish emigrants from Ireland who now dwell far far away from Ireland.

But I wager that if you were not waving your sthick at us you would be waving it at the Anglos who you would no doubt want to remind about the Trail Of Tears, or perhaps you want to Mexvent about the treatment of Latinos in the USA?

As for your herding round upon my candid and useful assessment of modern Irish education of its children, what can I say? Not much because I doubt that you spent a day in an Irish school as a child much less that you enjoyed the measure of a 4 ft cane comming down six times on your little 8 year old hands!

Like all these proxy Irish I meet you haven't a clue 'amach' ( translate that as you like IF you can )Today we Irish defend the Orange Order having marches, want to limit and coral the mad rush of the Gealgores to take over entirely OUR country, encourage progress and technology in Ireland etc etc.

BECAUSE

what has gone on there for the last 100 years has not made the country better but made it far far worse than ever it was in the Kingdom!

Thats why I have the views I have.

Now as to your implication that I somehow don't get Gaelic, you are making a terrible mistake! I do; and what's more I learned off of Irish native speakers who like my family HAD TO GET OUT OF Devileras banna republic in order to get the money to buy food enough to stay alive.

As I said and I repeat, you weren't there, and today you do not belong either.

My departure from you proxie Irish website should be sign enough to you that you have alienated yourself - as has CCE here in S Texas - from the REAL Irish in the Americas.

As they say here to people of your mind set "asta siempre"

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