Irish Dictionary Advice

Apart from online media such as TG4 television, and Raidió na Gaeltachta, the Irish language can also be found on social media sites such as YouTube.

YouTube is a great place to find people speaking and practicing Irish. You can also reply to a video with your own video, allowing you to practice with others.

Take a look at this video of two Conemara men talking with a tourist beside them. With my own Munster Irish, I find it very hard to even catch a couple of words. They’re speaking faster than you’d normally hear on Raidió na Gaeltachta:

An Ghrá faoi Glas (Love under lock and key, read the video script) is a four-part Big Brother parody which was shown on TG4:

See the other episodes.

The House of Ireland which is located in Balboa Park in San Diego, has recorded many of its Irish language classes, and have put the videos up on YouTube. The lesson sheets are also available.

On YouTube, you’ll also get many (often young) people uploading videos of them speaking Irish. Many videos will have video replies from others, so some “video conversations” get going. No matter what your level of Irish is, it would be a great exercise to post your video online, and allow for others to reply.

And finally, here’s a guy speaking about the urban Gaeltacht movement in Belfast: