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<\/a>https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File%3AAsplenium_marinum_Moore38.png<\/a>; Nature prints in The Ferns of Great Britain and Ireland used fronds to produce the plates By Thomas Moore; edited by John Lindley; nature-printed by Henry Bradbury. [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons; t\u00e9acs Gaeilge le R\u00f3isl\u00edn, 2018<\/p><\/div>(le R\u00f3isl\u00edn)<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Faoi dheireadh, an s\u00e9\u00fa (6\u00fa) cuid den ghluais don rapamhr\u00e1n “C.E.A.R.T.A.” leis an ngr\u00fapa Kneecap (naisc th\u00edos<\/strong>: lyrics, YouTube video and previous installments in this mini-series).\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 And here I thought glossing this song would just take a couple of posts, at most. But here, finally, are a few more words from the last few verses of \u201cC.E.A.R.T.A.\u201d<\/p>\n As I\u2019ve mentioned before, I\u2019m not printing the lyrics here for copyright reasons, but they\u2019re easily findable at the link below (to the online cultural journal N\u00f3s<\/em>). Hopefully, this glossary will help elementary to intermediate learners, and might help teachers in adult ed night school programs use the song as a classroom activity. As long as you don\u2019t have p\u00e1ist\u00ed \u00f3ga<\/strong> in the class.<\/p>\n The song is an interesting mix of fairly standard Irish and northern Irish (from the Belfast-based group), with a bit of English slang mixed in. There are also some cultural or geographical references that might not be familiar to Irish learners outside of Ireland, like Maghaberry (Maigh gCabra\u00ed<\/strong>) or D4. These were discussed in the previous installments of this blog. Of course, for a complete newcomer to Irish, the song text would be more challenging and might need a line-by-line translation. This mini-series has just covered some linguistic highlights.<\/p>\n As I\u2019ve mentioned previously, I\u2019ve added verse numbers here for convenience. They don\u2019t appear in either printed version of the lyrics that I\u2019ve seen.<\/p>\n v\u00e9arsa 9: rith na bhaile = rith chun a\u2019 bhaile<\/strong>, (to) run home; this is often simply written \u201cabhaile<\/strong>,\u201d which itself comes from \u201cchun an bhaile<\/strong>,\u201d lit. to home, homeward.<\/p>\n v\u00e9arsa 9: dul na bhfolach, i.e. dul i bhfolach<\/strong>, (to) go in hiding, i.e. to hide<\/p>\n v\u00e9arsa 9: \u201ctaped ar mo bhrollach\u201d <\/strong>[sic],\u00a0taped to my chest (chest as part of the body); not a rhyme I would have ever expected to find for \u201cbhfolach<\/strong>,\u201d but that\u2019s part of what makes the song so successful \u2013 the unexpected combination of sounds, words, and images.<\/p>\n v\u00e9arsa 10: scanraithe<\/strong>, scared<\/p>\n v\u00e9arsa 10: n\u00ed \u00edocaim as<\/strong>, I don\u2019t pay for (from the verb \u201c\u00edoc as<\/strong>,\u201d pay for)<\/p>\n v\u00e9arsa 10: deor,<\/strong> often means \u201ca tear,\u201d but here, \u201ca drop\u201d<\/p>\n v\u00e9arsa 10: raitneach (raithneach),<\/strong> well, traditionally it means \u201cfern\u201d or \u201cbracken,\u201d but now these days it can also mean \u201ccannabis.\u201d That explains the word \u201cdleathach<\/strong>\u201d (legal), following it.<\/p>\n v\u00e9arsa 10: aontaithe<\/strong>, united<\/p>\n v\u00e9arsa 11 (this verse is in English so doesn\u2019t need any glossing)<\/p>\n v\u00e9arsa 12: ag streachailt do<\/strong>, struggling for<\/p>\n v\u00e9arsa 12: greadadh<\/strong>, a beating, so \u201cag tabhairt greadadh do d\u2019athair<\/strong>\u201d is literally, \u201cgiving a beating to your father\u201d<\/p>\n v\u00e9arsa 12: lom nocht<\/strong>, bare naked, a little repetitive vocabulary-wise, but that no doubt adds to the impact. Irish adjectives are often doubled up like this, for effect: sona s\u00e1sta, fliuch b\u00e1ite<\/strong>, etc.<\/p>\n v\u00e9arsa 13: as mo mheabhair<\/strong>, out of my mind<\/p>\n v\u00e9arsa 13: achan = ach\u2019an = gach aon = gach uile = \u2018chuile<\/strong>, or simply gach<\/strong> (each, every) \u2013 that\u2019s 6 different ways of the saying the same thing: each (and) every. A minor difference from English is that English would include the word \u201cand\u201d between the two parts of the phrase. \u201cGach<\/strong>,\u201d by itself, would be the simplest way to say \u201ceach\u201d or \u201cevery.\u201d So you could say, \u201cgach fear<\/strong>\u201d (with no lenition) or pick any of the other versions, with lenition\u00a0(achan fhear<\/strong>, ach\u2019an fhear<\/strong>: mostly northern; gach aon fhear<\/strong>: fairly standard; OR gach uile fhear<\/strong>, \u2019chuile fhear<\/strong>: Conamara). And then, of course, there\u2019s \u201cna fir go l\u00e9ir<\/strong>\u201d (all the men) or \u201cna fir uilig go l\u00e9ir<\/strong>\u201d (all the men, no major difference, despite the doubling)<\/p>\n v\u00e9arsa 13: achan riail<\/strong>, every rule<\/p>\n v\u00e9arsa 13: caol le caol<\/strong>.\u00a0 I love the way the song ends, after being so antithetical, by getting back to one of the most fundamental Irish language spelling rules (the vowel harmony rule): \u201ccaol le caol<\/strong>\u201d (as the song says) and its counterpart \u201cleathan le leathan<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n A quick review of \u201cvowel harmony\u201d for anyone very new to Irish: Almost all Irish words are spelled according to the \u201cvowel harmony\u201d principle: caol le caol agus leathan le leathan<\/strong> (slender with slender and broad with broad). In Irish, the two slender vowels are \u201ce\u201d and \u201ci\u201d and the three broad vowels are \u201ca,\u201d \u201co,\u201d and \u201cu.\u201d If there\u2019s a consonant in the middle of an Irish word, it\u2019s supposed to have a slender vowel on either side (like \u201cime<\/strong>\u201d) or a broad vowel on either side (like \u201cm\u00f3ra<\/strong>\u201d), but not a mixture. There are a few exceptions, of course. This rule is taken into account every time a suffix is added to an Irish word, for example, adding plural endings (\u201c-anna\u201d in \u201ccarranna<\/strong>\u201d but \u201c-eanna\u201d for \u201csr\u00e1ideanna<\/strong>\u201d) or verb endings (\u201c-faidh\u201d for \u201c\u00f3l<\/strong>\u201d in \u201c\u00f3lfaidh<\/strong>\u201d but \u201c-fidh\u201d for \u201cbris<\/strong>\u201d in \u201cbrisfidh<\/strong>\u201d). Most adult learners will be taught this rule within their first few Irish classes; as for very young children learning the language, well, they probably just absorb it, the way they learn most features of language.<\/p>\n Bhuel<\/strong>, finally, that\u2019s all the verses glossed. Of course, one could simply use online dictionaries, but hopefully this \u201cmionsraith<\/strong>\u201d added a little more dimension to the words as well.\u00a0 SGF\u00a0 – R\u00f3isl\u00edn<\/strong><\/p>\n Iarbhlagmh\u00edreanna sa mhionsraith seo faoin amhr\u00e1n “C.E.A.R.T.A”:<\/strong><\/p>\n Cuid a hAon den ghluais:\u00a0<\/strong>A Short Glossary for the Irish Rap Song \u201cC.E.A.R.T.A\u201d by Kneecap (Rapcheol Gaeilge) [Cuid\/Pt.1]<\/a>\u00a0Posted by\u00a0r\u00f3isl\u00edn<\/a>\u00a0on Jan 7, 2018 in\u00a0Irish Language<\/a><\/p>\n Cuid a D\u00f3 den ghluais:<\/strong>\u00a0A Short Glossary for the Irish Rap Song \u201cC.E.A.R.T.A\u201d by Kneecap (Rapcheol Gaeilge) [Cuid\/Pt.2]<\/a>Posted by\u00a0r\u00f3isl\u00edn<\/a>\u00a0on Jan 11, 2018 in\u00a0Irish Language<\/a><\/p>\n Cuid a Tr\u00ed den ghluais<\/strong>:\u00a0A Short Glossary for the Irish Rap Song \u201cC.E.A.R.T.A\u201d by Kneecap (Rapcheol Gaeilge) [Cuid\/Pt. 3]<\/a>Posted by\u00a0r\u00f3isl\u00edn<\/a>\u00a0on Jan 15, 2018 in\u00a0Irish Language<\/a><\/p>\n Cuid a Ceathair den ghluais:<\/strong>\u00a0A Short Glossary for the Irish Rap Song \u201cC.E.A.R.T.A\u201d by Kneecap (Rapcheol Gaeilge) [Cuid\/Pt. 4]<\/a>\u00a0Posted by\u00a0r\u00f3isl\u00edn<\/a>\u00a0on Jan 19, 2018\u00a0in\u00a0Irish Language<\/a><\/p>\n Cuid a C\u00faig den ghluais:<\/strong> A Short Glossary for the Irish Rap Song \u201cC.E.A.R.T.A\u201d by Kneecap (Rapcheol Gaeilge) [Cuid\/Pt. 5]<\/a> Posted by r\u00f3isl\u00edn<\/a> on Jan 23, 2018 in Irish Language<\/a><\/p>\n nasc don amhr\u00e1n:<\/strong>\u00a0 “C.E.A.R.T.A” le Kneecap, https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8Sf0htzbMKk<\/p>\n nasc do na liric\u00ed:<\/strong> https:\/\/nos.ie\/cultur\/ceol\/amhran-na-haoine-cearta-kneecap\/<\/a>\u00a0 Foireann N\u00d3S\u00a0 15\u00fa Nollaig 2017\u00a0 CEOL<\/a>#amhr\u00e1n aoine<\/a>\u00a0 Amhr\u00e1n na hAoine\u00a0 ‘C.E.A.R.T.A.’, le Kneecap<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" (le R\u00f3isl\u00edn) \u00a0 Faoi dheireadh, an s\u00e9\u00fa (6\u00fa) cuid den ghluais don rapamhr\u00e1n “C.E.A.R.T.A.” leis an ngr\u00fapa Kneecap (naisc th\u00edos: lyrics, YouTube video and previous installments in this mini-series).\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 And here I thought glossing this song would just take a couple of posts, at most. But here, finally, are a few more words from the…<\/p>\n