How The Irish Language Inspires A More Connected Way Of Life | Manchán Magan

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How The Irish Language Inspires A More Connected Way Of Life | Manchán Magan | Ireland's Edge

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What can we make of a language that has 32 words for field?
Writer and broadcaster Manchán Magan encountered the remarkable richness of the Irish language as a young child, and his grandmother Sighle was determined that he would learn to speak it in the place where it was the common language of daily life. This was Muiríoch in the west Kerry Gaeltacht, where Manchán spent his childhood holidays in his grandmother’s house. The Irish he learned there dates back to a time when the multiplicity of words for objects, actions, ideas and feelings reflected a way of life with a profound appreciation for the natural world.
In Dingle Manchán spoke with Ireland’s Edge founder and Emmy winning writer and director Nuala O’Connor about his new book, 32 Words for Field: Lost Words of the Irish Landscape.
You can also listen to this fascinating discussion in podcast form on the brand new Ireland's Edge - The Podcast series: spoti.fi/3hiR746
Ireland's Edge - Available Light/Solas was made possible thanks to our leading partner, Intel Ireland, and supported by Jones Engineering Group, the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media, The Department of Foreign Affairs, The Irish Times and Kerry County Council

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@brendanharding6015 Жыл бұрын

The Irish nation is very fortunate to have Manchan Magan. Thank you, Manchan.

@2msvalkyrie529 Жыл бұрын

Hmm. Unfortunately when he stood as a candidate in the elections of 2016 in Co Longford he received only 2 % of the votes cast. Obviously the people of Ireland don't appreciate him as much as you ?

@deaganachomarunacathasaigh4344 Жыл бұрын

@@2msvalkyrie529 Irish speakers appreciate him. There's no Irish speakers in Longford aside from Irish teachers. It's only the monolingual English speakers who don't like him

@IainMcGirr 2 күн бұрын

@@deaganachomarunacathasaigh4344 Plenty of People from Kerry appreciate him I also grew up in the 70s in Tralee as well

@deaganachomarunacathasaigh4344 2 күн бұрын

@@IainMcGirr Plenty of Kerry people, are Irish speakers

@eleanorchapple8772 2 жыл бұрын

Manchan Magan has inspired me to take up the Irish language. I last learned a bit in a boarding school in the north of Ireland. I’ve an ocean of learning ahead of me but I’m encouraged by all the videos an vlogs out there and here I am in the farming heartland of southern Ontario. I was glad to see that your government has come up with some rewards for knowing the language like I think 20 per cent of each branch must be Irish speakers. I only get snippets of Irish news here so I may be mistaken

@philmcnamara4266 Жыл бұрын

Lovely to hear you picked up our native language in adult life again Eleanor… so did I. It is part of our identity & a beautiful gift to be able to speak in our native tongue. On the net If you can connect to TG4 our native Irish tv channel or to our Irish Radio na Gaeltacht you will get to hear & enjoy it even more …beir bua agus Slán ☘️

@davek89666 10 ай бұрын

Fair play to ye both. I want to pick it up again, it's nothing short of magic

@MseeBMe 2 жыл бұрын

I could listen to him talk for the rest of my life.

@jamesbeckett5004 3 ай бұрын

Heard Manchan on the blindboy boatclub podcast first a while ago, can't get enough of this mans story telling.

@naomiseraphina9718 2 жыл бұрын

Manchan Magan is such a bright being illuminating this world with his passionate genius and wise insighful madness that he is truly one of the saints of our age. No better star need exist by which to steer. If you learn from his example you cannot go wrong. Mile beannachtai air.

@auroraboraas 2 жыл бұрын

What a fantastically inspiring man! I just stumbled across an interview with him yesterday, and now I feel like I have a wealth of inspiration available. A very interesting interview!

@bernadettepacker1530 2 ай бұрын

I remember my mother telling me that when they had a match they did not look at the man they looked at the field to see if the grass was green so I suppose fields would be central in the language. Manchan's instruction on many words for Field gives a new insight to the naming of the film The Field. A rural life and had to make a living. On the supernatural dimension when taken to Ireland as a child the fields seemed alive as I was told about Jack o lanterns and of course leprechauns. Bernadette

@garthhunt7238 Жыл бұрын

Loved the lady who conducted the interview, as well as the amazing Manchan Magan!

@jamesduggan9789 2 жыл бұрын

Dia duit. "H'iontas faoi caint leat". My lrish is limited; whatever is buried down there from my years in the De La Salle brothers in Ballyfermot ~ a Cork man teacher, Bri. Coleman. He was a good Bro. However, l was caught by your opening words to Manchán. Lovely way to say, " wonderful to be speaking with you". Maith thú. 🙏🇮🇪🙏

@donalosullivan6155 3 жыл бұрын

Delightfully interesting and informative.

@Irishmanwoodcraft Жыл бұрын

i have felt the pull of our beautiful land, i sensed something more was in the land beneath my feet and gained a sense of one with her, great, honorable, we must make our language great agian.... I live beside an ancient irish speaking community, the ' gailtác' was in this village up until it was move to co Donegal in the early 1920s... i feel the history here, its place names, and townships has a story to tell...under valued irish heritage surrounds us i believe... more time should given to explore and understand...so many land marks and so many questions... the Irish language could honestly be the key to it all ...

@colinmcgee5931 Ай бұрын

Thank you so much. My family left Ireland for South Africa in 1820, and it's one of the sorrows of my life that I cannot speak this language of poetry and wonder. You gave me a glimpse.

@joemcnerney8765 2 жыл бұрын

This is a beautiful and magical book!

@hearthstorytelling4971 Жыл бұрын

Go híontach! ❤️

@vscoster Жыл бұрын

Is leabhar iontach é seo. Rinne Manchan argóint suimiúil ann faoi an ceangal idir an Gaeilge agus ár gcuid áit ar an tír agus ar an domhan agus ar gcaidreamh le gach rud timpeall muid freisin. Tá sean téarmaí sa leabhar seo nach bhfuil a labhairt níos mó agus cuireann sé brón orm. Ach tá dóchas ionam anois go beidh ár dteanga ag éirí as a glúin mar geal an saothar Mangan agus duine eile cosúil leis.

@gabhanachdenogla8342 2 жыл бұрын

Maith thú Manchan - Ardfhear!

@inbriefbookfilmreviews2539 Жыл бұрын

Míle buíochas a Manchán

@josephbrennan9712 4 ай бұрын

Ar fheabhas, absolutely gorgeous

@AnnetteMurphyger 14 күн бұрын

Come West Along the Road

@daviesbydesign 4 ай бұрын

Does Manchan still think the language is dead? That’s what he said in Dublin a few years back

@AnnetteMurphyger 14 күн бұрын

Cluain meala Clonmel (Field of Honey)

@AnnetteMurphyger 14 күн бұрын

Is than Anton O"Rahilly

@donkeyotay5 5 күн бұрын

obviously an Innuit came and identified 31 different types of snow in the fields, lol. Could also be proof that we invented Estate Agents 😆

@chopchung 2 ай бұрын

Series 1, Episode 1 of his series NO BEALA. go to 2:46 and just watch the dirty look he gets from the bus lady once his back is turned, even though she herself has at least basic Irish.Seems the Irish look DOWN on their own language as a sign of poverty or backwardness.Strange attitudes from a people who fought for so long to be "free".

@mollymcnaughton3133 3 ай бұрын

I'd already begun learning Gaeilge a few months ago when I came across one of Manchán's videos and I was hooked..☘️✨💚🤍🧡

@AnnetteMurphyger 14 күн бұрын

An tOileánach you mean

@oldtimeycabins 4 ай бұрын

Iontach

@calebballantine3402 2 жыл бұрын

Seo é an leabhar ceart go loir

@hector7187 18 күн бұрын

Manchan is as mad as a box of frogs..

@AnnetteMurphyger 14 күн бұрын

Ríocht

@deirdre6055 2 жыл бұрын

Go hiontach ar fad.

@fastpublish 7 ай бұрын

Terrierorist??

@AoifeNiBhraoin 4 ай бұрын

Cad atá tú ag caint faoi?

@johnpurcell7525 2 ай бұрын

Irish is an English word Ireland is an English word what happened to Gaelic why so opposed to Gaelic

@DanielDunne1 2 ай бұрын

Irish means the dialects of Gaelic spoken in Ireland maybe .. not including gaelic spoken in Scotland.

@shadetreader Ай бұрын

You mean Gaeilge?

@johnpurcell7525 22 күн бұрын

Could be Gahlic in Donegal or Gaeling in Munster think it's Gaeilge inGalway and Gallic in Scotland but we wouldn't want to acknowledge any connection to them now would we Wonder Why

@johnpurcell7525 22 күн бұрын

@@shadetreaderNo I mean Gaelic an English word which covers Gahlic in Donegal Gaeling in Munster and Gallic in Scotland I Use the term Gaelic when speaking English it's an English word %