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    September 2003


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    		IN THIS ISSUE
    ~~~ Foreword
    ~~~ News Snaps from Ireland 
    ~~~ New free resources at the site
    ~~~ Cork Dishwasher scoops the Irish Draw
    ~~~ Bridey                       by Carole Kenney
    ~~~ The Road to Knowledge       by John B. McCabe
    ~~~ How I started to learn Irish   by Nancy Bryan
    ~~~ Gaelic phrases of the month
    ~~~ Shamrock Site of the Month
    ~~~ Monthly free competition result
    
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    FOREWORD
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    Hello again from Ireland where the talk is all 
    about rubbish! People now have to pay to have 
    their rubbish bins collected and they are not at 
    all happy about it. Two elected representatives 
    have actually gone to prison in protest at the 
    charges.
    
    Until the next time,
    
    Michael
    
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    NEWS SNAPS FROM IRELAND
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    HUGE FALL IN NUMBERS SEEKING ASYLUM IN IRELAND
    
    The recent decision by the Supreme Court that the 
    parents of Irish-born children are not 
    automatically entitled to residency in Ireland 
    has resulted in a big drop in the number of 
    applications being made.
    
    There were over 11,600 applications for asylum 
    during the first 8 months of 2002. During the 
    same time period in 2003 only 6051 have been 
    received. Applications from Nigeria account for 
    one third of all applications. SInce there is no 
    direct travel route between Ireland and Nigeria 
    it is clear that the asylum applicants are 
    landing in other European countries first (mostly 
    Britain and France) where they are supposed to 
    make their application. The possibility of 
    residency being granted in Ireland because an 
    applicants child was born in Ireland has caused
    major pressure being placed the country's 
    Maternity Hospitals.
    
    The closure of this path to residency has been 
    attributed with causing the huge fall in the 
    number of refugees entering the State.
     
    DEMONSTRATIONS OVER BIN TAX CONTINUE
    
    A Socialist T.D. (member of parliament) and a 
    Dublin Councillor have been jailed as a result 
    of their ongoing protests against the bin tax.
    
    The bin tax was introduced as a means of 
    financing local government. The cost of the 
    collection of bins to residents varies from 
    region to region and has steadily increased. A 
    campaign against this 'double taxation' has 
    resulted in legislation being introduced that 
    authorises the local councils to refuse to 
    collect the bins of those residents who have 
    not paid the charge.
    
    This has prompted street demonstrations and 
    the blocking of refuse trucks on roads. The 
    two politicians who were sent to jail were in 
    direct contravention of a High Court order 
    preventing them from blocking the bin trucks. 
    Recent government proposals that all bins will 
    be weighed in the future and that residents 
    will be charged on a 'per-weight' basis has 
    done little to calm the disquiet.
    
    IRISH TROOPS MAY BE SENT TO IRAQ
    
    Irish Taoiseach Bertie Ahearn has indicated 
    that he may be willing to send Irish 
    peace-keeping troops into Iraq, should the 
    United Nations require them. Any troop 
    deployment would be dependent on a new UN 
    resolution authorising UN involvement in the 
    conflict. Already two senior Garda officers 
    have been appointed onto an international 
    police panel which will report on the state of 
    security in Baghdad on behalf of the UN.
    
    DEBATE OVER SMOKING BAN CONTINUES
    
    From next January it will be illegal to smoke in 
    pubs and restaurants in Ireland. The new smoking 
    ban is being introduced by the Department of 
    Health in a bid to reduce the risk of passive 
    smoking and to encourage non-smokers to quit. 
    
    Lobbying by pub and hotel owners has gained 
    momentum in recent months and already some 
    publicans are working to manoeuvre around the 
    ban. Several pubs have had courtyard style 
    'beer gardens' created complete with outdoor 
    heaters and retractable roofs. Some rooms in 
    pubs are being converted to 'outdoor' rooms by 
    the removal of a wall or by the raising of the 
    ceiling.
    
    NEW DRINK LAWS INTRODUCED
    
    New laws have been introduced in an effort to 
    reduce drink consumption and to reduce street 
    crime associated with over-consumption of alcohol. 
    Closing time in pubs on Thursday nights will 
    revert to 11:30 pm from 12:30 am. It will also be 
    illegal for people under 18 to be in a pub after 
    9:00 pm, unless they are at a private function or 
    are consuming a 'substantial' meal. 18 to 20 
    year-olds will also be required to carry 
    identification with them whilst in a pub and will 
    face a fine of 300 Euro if found on a licenced 
    premises without such identification.
    
    FALSE COMPENSATION CLAIMANTS WILL FACE JAIL
    
    New measures are being introduced to try to reduce 
    the 'compensation culture' that has blossomed in 
    Ireland in recent years. Apart from America, 
    Ireland is the most litigious country in the world 
    when it comes to suing. There have been may well 
    documented cases of false claims being made and 
    the Government has decided to act.
    
    Anyone who makes a false compensation claim will 
    be faced with the possibility of up to 10 years in 
    jail under the tough new proposed legislation. 
    Anyone who exaggerates a claim will have their 
    complete claim thrown out and may also face legal 
    expenses.
     
    MOTORCYCLISTS TARGETED IN WAR ON TRAFFIC DEATHS
    
    New legislation has been proposed by the 
    Government which will make it compulsory for all 
    motorcyclists to wear colourful luminescent bibs. 
    The introduction of the penalty points system has 
    seen a big reduction in the number of road 
    fatalities in all categories of road vehicle, 
    except motorcycles. 42 motorcyclists have been 
    killed on Irish roads so far this year. 
    
    A further proposal by the Government may raise 
    the minimum age for motorcycle use from 16 to 17 
    years. Compulsory lessons for new drivers has 
    also been suggested.
    
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    BRIDEY 				by Carole Kenney
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    Bridey is my second cousin, and the most 
    interesting of a number of cousins living in 
    County Clare, Ireland. I visited her in her 
    thatched-roof white house which has been in the 
    family for 200 years. Once inside, you look up, 
    not at a ceiling but at a shiny pattern of thick, 
    strong, reeds interwoven in such a way that rain 
    never penetrates. The entry door opens onto the 
    kitchen where the entire right wall is an enormous 
    faded yellow cabinet, with many latched doors. The 
    living room is dark with worn furniture, and 
    between the sofa and chair is a small round table 
    holding a glass decanter and small glasses for the 
    Irish Whiskey. 
    
    Bridey never married. She kept house for her 
    father and brother who were quite fond of Irish 
    Whiskey. She rides a motor scooter, wears a brown 
    raincoat year round and has a very deep voice. My 
    cousin, Reina, told me confidentially with a kind 
    but amused smile, that Bridey's neighbor down the 
    road thought for a long time that she was a man. 
    
    Reina and I were sitting at her dining room table 
    and I was admiring her collection of crystal and 
    pieces of Belleek when she offered to drop me at 
    Bridey's so I could spend a little time with her. 
    I tried frantically to think of an excuse. 
    'She's probably tired from working in the garden 
    and will want to take a nap'. Nothing worked. 
    'Oh no' Reina said persistently, 'she'd love to 
    see you, she said so just the other day'. There 
    was no hope.  I didn't want to go. But we went. I 
    didn't want to be left alone with this strange 
    lady with whom I had nothing in common. She had 
    rough, pock-marked skin, faded red hair, no facial 
    expression, and that scary deep voice. I could see 
    no hope for conversation other than those 
    desperate banalities that ward off the horror of 
    total silence. She came to the door. Reina left 
    me there.
    
    Bridey smiled a little, seemed genuinely glad to 
    see me, and offered me a chair beside the round 
    black heater. We each had a little Irish Whiskey. 
    I hoped it would help. She started by asking me 
    about my grandmother and why she never returned 
    to Ireland for a visit. I explained that her 
    husband had died leaving her with four children 
    and that there was little possibility of such a 
    trip. She didn't seem to understand. She looked 
    distant and repeated a few times, 'None of them 
    ever came back'. She said again, half to herself 
    'They never came back, none of them'. I rambled 
    on nervously as she listened quietly, saying 
    little, asking an occasional question. 
    
    There was a little rack beside the round, black 
    stove and on it hung two pairs of pink drawers 
    with holes, drying as we talked. At first it 
    seemed colloquial and colorful and even funny, 
    but suddenly the whole scene changed and I saw 
    the tragedy of her lost life. I saw her soul and 
    it obliterated everything else. I saw the old 
    brown raincoat on a hook, her quiet acceptance of 
    her fate, and suddenly the rack, the stove and 
    the pink drawers became so overwhelmingly sad, I 
    had to fight back tears. I pretended to be 
    coughing. She was sensible and would have thought 
    I was crazy. I still wanted to leave, but part of 
    me wished I could stay and in some way make her 
    life easier. She kissed me goodbye and I felt the 
    roughness of her cheek and of her life.
    
    In this 200-year-old family house, Bridey gave me 
    a sense of the soul of Ireland and a feeling of 
    being contained within that soul. It was home, 
    this place I had never seen before, as tangible 
    as the rickety chair I was sitting on.
    
    Carole Kenney
    
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    THE ROAD TO KNOWLEDGE		by John B. McCabe
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    I can never recall with any accuracy my first day 
    at school because I made two beginnings. My 
    brother was two years older than me and he was 
    sent to school for the first time at the age of 
    six. I was sent along with him but then my 
    parents took pity on me because I was only four 
    and it was a mile walk to school. I was kept at 
    home until the following year and made a new 
    beginning then.
    
    School itself was not such a wonderful experience 
    though I was bright enough to learn quickly and 
    was seldom punished. Being naturally fond of 
    company I delighted in the excitement of the 
    crowd but privately formed only a few special 
    friendships.
    
    In spite of my ability to learn quickly it is sad 
    to recall that I never felt loved at primary 
    school and the prevailing mood of those years was 
    one of anxiety and nervousness ­ fear of being 
    late, fear of being slapped, shame at watching 
    others being beaten.
    
    The schoolmistress who taught me in the early 
    years was a good and conscientious young woman but 
    one who shouted all day long and had her 
    favourites. I only resented her favouritism 
    because I wanted it for myself and because her 
    favourites were better off and I would have liked 
    that too.
    
    The schoolmaster was humane and philosophical and 
    I warmed to him a little better but never crossed 
    the bridge between servile respect and healthy 
    reverence where real learning is possible. There 
    was a hunger in me that was never filled in those 
    formative years. One or two small seeds did take 
    root where the cadence of words and rhythms from 
    early poems touched my ear for the first time but 
    it was a sparse and famished nourishment that 
    barely awoke the soul.
    
    Scientists agree that the most difficult sense to 
    recall is the sense of smell. Even when we dream 
    we do so in visual and aural worlds but never in 
    olfactory dimensions. Yet when it comes to those 
    early school years it is a variety of smells and 
    tactile sensations which best evoke, for me, the 
    ambience and atmosphere of that time. The 
    distinctive smell and cloying touch of plasticine 
    finds me rolling out wriggly worms on a rough 
    bench to form bicycles, bird's nests, little 
    houses and a whole variety of clumsy models of the 
    world around me.
    
    The fumbling grip of a tiny finger and thumb on a 
    morsel of chalk, the dry scratching on slate 
    announce my first wobbly alphabet. Cold water, 
    coal dust and sunlight soap in an enamelled basin 
    ­ the ritual ablutions after lighting the school 
    fire. The aura of expectancy evoked in the smell 
    of new books and their promised discoveries, 
    marred inevitably by ink stains and sullied by 
    punishments earned or undeserved in the 
    explorations of grammar, spelling and 
    transcription. The musty aftermath of stale lunch 
    crumbs in canvas bags, the pungency of ammonia 
    fumes oozing from the dry-toilet walls. These and 
    a thousand other smells are forever remembrances 
    of school.
    
    There was no wall-clock that I can recall and the 
    school day was measured as in some primeval age 
    by phases of change. Time did not seem to exist 
    so slowly did the hours drawl by. Morning prayers, 
    roll call, mid-morning break, the shock of sound 
    when the angelus rang from the nearby chapel, 
    lunch-time, afternoon break and finally the 
    excited exodus of home time. These were the 
    constant signposts along to road to knowledge.
    Between these unchanging divisions of the day lay 
    the timeless routine of learning which followed a 
    monastic regularity: chanting of tables, 
    brow-furrowed puzzlement of sums, the finger 
    leading the eye from word to word along the 
    mysterious page.
    
    There was so little colour in those books after 
    we left the infant classes that the mind grew 
    bland with boredom. My eyes hungered for some 
    stimulus to brighten the landscape of our drab 
    and desolate space. I still recall the primitive 
    abacus of coloured spools threaded on clothes-line 
    wire against the brown wainscoted wall, the vivid 
    pink of fresh plaster covering a hole in the 
    off-white ceiling, a deep green spray of painted 
    shamrocks and a cascade of fiery tongues lurking 
    among the dull pages of an early catechism.
    
    Occasionally a little light would seep through a 
    chink in the armour of routine. A visiting 
    missionary would call with exotic tales of 
    malarious mosquitoes, witch doctors and cannibals 
    in dugout canoes. For a brief moment our minds 
    would glow in the warmth of imaginations fire, 
    bright as the equatorial sun. Rarer still a 
    travelling conjurer would visit and we could 
    purchase for a few pennies those happy mesmeric 
    moments when 'the swiftness of the hand would 
    steal a march on the eye'.
    
    The most terrifyingly important moment of the 
    year was the annual catechism exam when we begged 
    mammy to 'put us over the answers' in the thin 
    dawn light before going in to school. The examiner 
    was a young priest, a gentle, warm and loving man 
    who offered half the answer with the question so 
    that we could act our answers from his prompting 
    phrases while we were centre-stage for this most 
    dramatic performance of the academic year.
    
    Progress was measured by postings: firstly from 
    bench to bench and later from room to room. Moving 
    to the 'master's room' marked a definite 
    graduation which promised that sometime in the 
    unimaginable future it might be possible to earn 
    parole from this, to us, life-long learning 
    imprisonment.
    
    Then there came a day shortly before I finished 
    my apprenticeship when the master opened a book 
    and read a poem in Irish called 'An Long' ­ about 
    a ship which came to harbour after many exotic 
    adventures in far-away magical places. That's when 
    it happened. A door opened to a world of words. 
    Was it something in the timbre of emotion in the 
    master's voice or the look of longing in his tired 
    eyes when he savoured the sounds? I am sure he was 
    not aware of the impact he made on me at that 
    moment of epiphany but today I thank him for the 
    gift that was worth the waiting in those timeless 
    years.
    
    John B. McCabe
    
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    HOW I STARTED TO LEARN IRISH      by Nancy Bryan
    
    A Mhichil, a chara,
    
    I, like many other Americans, do have a bit of 
    Irish blood running through my veins, but the 
    essence of my ancestors is embedded in my heart 
    and soul. My quest to learn Gaeilge (Irish 
    language) began about two years ago when I met 
    someone born and raised in County Cork, Ireland.
    
    I started surfing the web, going into Irish chat 
    rooms and looking for ways to learn the language 
    online. That is when I found your newsletter with 
    the 'Phrases of the Month' section. It was 
    marvelous, and so easy to learn phonetically but 
    I hungered for more.  
    
    Each month, I would learn the phrases and practice 
    them. I even tried them out on one of your native 
    sons, a local shopkeeper. He said, 'You have a 
    darn good accent, for a Yank'. That made me smile, 
    and warmed my heart. But it also served to 
    reinforce my determination to really learn the 
    language and be able to speak it with pride and 
    confidence.
    
    I happened upon a learning chat room on America 
    on Line, AOL International Gaelic Language Chat. 
    The host of that room was most helpful. When I 
    told him I wanted to learn but felt it would be 
    easier if I had someone with whom I could practice 
    speaking, he told me about an Irish Heritage 
    course at a local college. Well that did it.
    
    I signed up for the spring semester (a ten week 
    session). I must confess, after the first class 
    I was a bit overwhelmed and questioned my own 
    ability to ever master the language. The rules 
    for grammar and spelling are baffling at first 
    and until you learn how certain letter 
    combinations, as well as what comes before and 
    after them, make certain sounds you really have 
    a hard time with pronunciation of the written 
    word. I was pleasantly surprised that by the 
    seventh class I began to understand what my 
    instructor was saying to me, though I was not 
    always able to answer in Irish. However, my Irish 
    determination (some may call it stubbornness) 
    kicked in and I have continued with my studies. 
    I attended the 5-week summer session and, along 
    with two other students, formed a study group 
    that meets once a week. I have also joined a 
    group from the college called Daltai na Gaeilge. 
    They offer many opportunities to actually use the 
    language and have a great site online, daltai.com.  
    If anyone wishes to learn just a few basic phrases 
    and hear them spoken or find a program in their 
    local area this site could be of help to them.
    
    At present, after only 15 formal classes, I still 
    have the vocabulary and knowledge of a young child 
    but I work on it everyday. Even when I am with 
    family and friends who don't speak the language, I 
    will speak to them in Gaeilge and then translate 
    what I have said. The fun part comes when I have 
    them try to repeat the proper response. Another 
    way I practice is when emailing friends from the 
    class. I use my Focloir (dictionary) and try to 
    write it entirely in Irish. Then I take the email 
    to class and have the instructor go over it. If 
    an error is made and you learn from it, it 
    becomes a lesson. The real secret in learning 
    Irish is to have fun with it and cleachtadh, 
    cleachtadh, cleachtadh (practice, practice, 
    practice).
    
    Some have asked me 'Why study Irish?' My reply is 
    simply 'Because I can'.
     
    One day, God willing, I shall set foot on your 
    beautiful Ireland and I wish to honor her, her 
    people and my ancestors by being able to speak 
    the native tongue. 
    
    Tir gan teanga, tir gan anam (a land without a 
    language, is a land without a soul).
    
    Keep up the great work with the newsletter. 
    Go raibh maith agat, a Mhichil,
    (Thank you, Michael) 
    
    Mise le meas, (with respect)
    Nainsi (Nancy)
    
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    GAELIC PHRASES OF THE MONTH
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    PHRASE:		An bhfuil pian ort?
    PRONOUNCED:	on will peen urt?
    MEANING: 		Do you have any pain?
    
    PHRASE:		Beidh tu ag taisteal san otharcharr
    PRONOUNCED:	beg two egg tass/toil sann uttor/karr
    MEANING: 		You are going by ambulance	
    
    PHRASE: 		Gheobhaidh me an bhanaltra duit
    PRONOUNCED:	yeo/igg/ may on bonn/all/trah dwit
    MEANING:		I will get the nurse for you
    
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