Gaeilge Dhoire III, Foclóir (ó An tUltach)

(le caoinchead An tUltach)

Gaeilge Dhoire II (ó An tUltach)

(Le caoinchead An tUltach)

Gaeilge Dhoire I (ó An tUltach)

(le caoinchead 'an tUltach')

Taifead de Ghaeilge Thír Eoghain cuid II & III, (A recording of Tyrone Irish, part II & III)

Seo cuid a dó agus cuid a trí den taifead a rinneadh ar Ellen Mary Biddy, siar i 1996.

Bheadh sé suimiúil fáil amach cá mhéad de a thuigeann cainteoirí Gaeilge an lae inniu agus foghlaimeoirí go háirithe.

Labhair sí go tapa go dearbh ach ba chainteoir soiléir í. Bhí Gaeilge Thir Eoghain ó thaobh fhoclóir agus gramadach de an chosúil le Gaeilge Thuaisceart Thír Chonall agus ó thaobh blas na bhfocal de, cosúil le Gaeilge lár Thír Chonaill.

This is part two and three of the recording made of Ellen Mary Biddy in 1996.

It would be interesting to find out how much of it is understood by contemporary Irish speakers, especially learners.

She spoke quickly, but clearly. Tyrone Irish was, in terms of vocabulary and grammar very close to that of North Donegal and in terms of 'blas', quite close to central Donegal.

Taifead de Ghaeilg Thír Eoghain Cuid I (A recording of native Tyrone Irish, part 1)

Seo taifeadán de Ghaeilg dhúchasach Chontae Thír Eoghain, rinneadh é i 1966. Is é Ellen Mary Biddy an cainteoir, agus is é Conn McCullagh atá ag caint léi.

Ba chainteoir dúchais é Conn ar an ábhar gurb as Rann na Feirsde a mháthair, ach bhí tionchar Gaeilge Thír Eoghain air agus tuigbheáil maith aige uirthi.

Ba é Gary Pentland as an Chorr Chríochadh a rinne an taifead, Protastúnach ab ea é agus ní raibh Gaeilge aige - ach bhí gléas taifeadáin aige.

Nuair a chuala Gary go raibh a leithéid de rud ann agus cainteoir dúchais Gaeilge gar dó, ar aghaidh leis chun taifeadán a dhéanamh.

This is a recording of native Tyrone Irish, the recording was made in 1966. The speaker's name was Ellen Mary Biddy, and Conn McCullagh is the name of the man speaking to her.

Conn was a native speaker also, but his mother was from Rann na Feirsde in Donegal. He had a good grasp of Tyrone Irish however.

The recording was made by a Cookstown man, Gary Pentland, a Protestant as it happens and he had no Irish at all. He had however a tape recorder and on hearing that native Irish existed in Tyrone, off he went to record it.

Seo roinnt eolas ar Ellen ó shárshuíomh Chiaráin Uí Dhuibhín.

Here is some information on Ellen from Ciarán Ó Duibhín's excellent website.

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Ellen DEVLIN (Eibhlín Mháire Bhidí), Leckin, Gleann Láirc,

1878/07/24 — 1970/05/05

 Née McCrory.  Micky McCrory, Glenlark, possibly a half-brother.  

Reference

Mac Airt, Seán, 'Sgéaltaí ó Thír Eoghain' in Béaloideas 20 Uimhir I -11 1950

Scéalta Mhuintir Luinigh

Scéalta Mhuintir Luinigh, III (b)

Scéalta Mhuintir Luinigh III (a)

Scéalta Mhuintir Luinigh III (a).

Reference

One of the most fundamental reference for all Irish dialects.

Wagner, Heinrich: Linguistic Atlas and Survey of Irish Dialects I (1958) p. xiv; (1981) p. xix.

Reference

Sgéalta ó Thír Eoghain, curtha in eagar ag Seán Mac Airt.

I believe this have been translated by Art Hughes (reference pending).

Leagan Béarla :
Airt, Seán Mac: "Tyrone folk tales", Béaloideas 19 (1949) 29-72 (in English).

An important reference

A Phonetic Glossary of Tyrone Irish, A. J. HUGHES

(Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie (ZcP). Volume 46, Issue 1, Pages 119–163, ISSN (Online) 1865-889X, ISSN (Print) 0084-5302, //1994)

A wee hint on Tyrone Irish

Leid Beag # 1, 'a wee hint'. The fundamental aspect of Irish as spoken in Tyrone, is that is is a 'cha' /xa/ dialect.

For example, 'ní raibh mé' (I was not) was 'cha rabh mé' in Tyrone.

Gaelic dialects can be spilt into the language of 'cha' and the language of 'ní' as illustrated in the map opposite. East Ulster, Scotland and Mann use 'cha', most of Ireland uses 'ní'. To find out more about how to use 'cha' click here.

Road and Street-names - i nGaeilg!

Omagh area Road-Names.

Dungannon district road and street-names.

Sgéalta Mhuintir Luinigh, cuid II

Sgéalta Mhuintir Luinigh, cuid II.

Sgéalta Mhuintir Luinigh

Sgéalta Mhuintir Luinigh, cuid 1.

Sgéalta Mhuintir Luinigh (stories from Munterloney) is now well out of copyright but unfortunately no new version appears in site.

The original can be read by following the link about.

Sgéalta Mhuintir Luinigh, edited by Ó Tuatháil is the most important collection of Tyrone folklore in any language and one of the most important in Gaelic folklore.

More information forthcoming.

Leagain Béarla de cheithre chinn de na scéalta :

Hughes, A.J.: "Four Tyrone folktales", Ulster Folklife 33 (1987) 32-43.

A key reference for Tyrone Irish

The following, which is not freely available is the single most important reference for the study of Tyrone Irish.

Stockman, G. and Wagner, H. (1965) Contributions to a study of Tyrone Irish: some aspects of the vocabulary, grammar and phonology of Tyrone Irish, with texts, in Sommerfelt, A. (Ed) Lochlann: A Review of Celtic Studies, 3, pp 43-236, a monograph reprinted from Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap, Suppl. Bind V111.

Records of Tyrone Irish

Dogen Records from Tyrone.

Fáilte

Fáilte go Gaeltacht Thír Eoghain.

Welcome to the Tyrone Gaeltacht*.

Tá an suíomh seo a thógáil.

This site is just beginning.

* 'realm of the gael,' 'Irishy,' 'Gaelic speaking area.'