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Profs & Pints: An Intro to the Irish Language
Profs & Pints: An Intro to the Irish Language

Wed, Mar 22

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Washington

Profs & Pints: An Intro to the Irish Language

Gain an insight into Ireland, it’s people and it’s culture—while also learning a bit about its language and learning useful greetings and phrases and basic pronunciations.

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Mar 22, 2023, 6:00 PM – 8:30 PM

Washington, 801 E St NW, Washington, DC 20004, USA

About the event

Profs and Pints DC presents: “An Intro to the Irish Language,” with Sophie Ní Riain, native of Tipperary and current Fulbright scholar teaching the Irish language at Catholic University.

An Ghaeilge--Gaelic, known in Ireland simply as Irish—is one of the oldest living languages in Europe and Ireland’s most valuable and treasured link to the past. Not only is the language embedded in the history of the country, it is rich and melodious to hear. The 17th Centuring Irish poet Seathrún Céitinn wrote, “Milis an Teanga an Ghaeilge,” Irish is a sweet sounding language. In Ireland today Irish is taught to all schoolchildren, and about 40 percent of the Republic of Ireland’s population can speak it. There are places in Ireland, called Gaeltacht regions, where Irish remains the mother tongue of the people.

Gain an insight into Ireland, it’s people and it’s culture—while also learning a bit about its language—with the…

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