by Séamas Ó Direáin | Jan 14, 2016 | Aran Islands Blog, Blog Local Aran
Over 25 years ago, the Dublin Institute of Advanced Studies asked me to document the spoken Irish of Inis Mór in the Aran Islands. No serious study of Inis Mór Irish had been done there since the Danish scholar Holger Pedersen and the German scholar Franz Nikolaus...
by admin | Jan 3, 2016 | Aran Islands Blog, Blog Local Aran
The first days of the new year have bought a reprieve from storms Eva , Desmond, and Frank which battered the western shores with a ferocity few of us can remember. Having enjoyed a glorious October and November when the island reigned supremely in the beautiful...
