You cant but admire Manchán. We need our dreamers.

I’m living that new life of connection to roots that he speaks of in the last ten minutes.. and just for validation I’ve come to that same conclusion. I can be like so many and sit on a yoga mat contemplating karma, or I can connect to my own indigenous roots and contemplate my genetic and epigenetic heritage that has been imprinted on my very being. I’m convinced this disconnect is a root cause for so many ills in this world especially my own country the USA. Anyway thank you for the video!

@bean-phaidin

2 жыл бұрын

Is fíor se

@GalacticFarm

2 жыл бұрын

@@bean-phaidin tá

@sophiabreidfischer6242

Жыл бұрын

Canadian here. I resonate so much with this. In many ways I feel not Irish enough and yet is is part of my ancestry and modern urban life is largely devoid of culture and community. Im trying to connect with my own roots in order to know my place in the world better.

@GalacticFarm

Жыл бұрын

@@sophiabreidfischer6242 yes I think it is really important. Our cultural heritage is part of our DNA. This is something we never knew with the indoctrinations of nationalism we are all faced with in our countries, however science is proving the importance of this through epigenetic research and other means. It only makes sense to me. Whether we are on a spiritual journey or one of self discovery, it is paramount that we know who we are where our people came from and that we connect with it. In this way perhaps we can all became whole again and those missing pieces of our lives will fall in place.

@Thor-Orion

5 ай бұрын

@@sophiabreidfischer6242my great grandfather came to the states from County Mayo. No such thing as “not Irish enough.” It’s part of your whole. I’m an American Mutt. But I’m proud of all my ancestors. But to be clear, all of us who are of mixed European ancestry, those ancestors were at one point one people called Corded Ware.

Go raibh mile maith agat, aris, a Mhanchan! Is aoibhinn liom do shaothar! (I would like to continue in Irish, but this damned computer won't allow me to type a fada, so Bearla will have to do for the rest of this comment. I can't thank you enough, Manchan, for the beautiful and powerful impact that your work and presence is making in the world. I'm certain that I am but one of millions who are grateful to you for your thoughts, your words, your books, your films, and your willingness to share your journey with the public. I am an American with Irish heritage, and I have been teaching myself Irish, (with a lot of help from Gaelchultur) for three years now, and I only wish that I had started this process decades ago. I am leaving this comment partly just because I want to spread my dream as far afield as it can go, and my dream is as follows: I want to make Irish accessible to as many children of the Irish Diaspora as possible, and I want to promote it amongst us all as a daily, spoken and beloved reality in our lives. There are millions like me who love Ireland, and miss her terribly, even if we've never been fortunate enough to visit. We cannot rewrite history and make ourselves Irish somehow, and there are too many of us by far for us to ever literally come "home", but we CAN learn the language of our ancestors. We CAN speak it, read it, write it, celebrate it, and use it in our lives. I am attempting to start an Irish-language social club here in my hometown of Portland Oregon, which I hope will eventually morph into a free, Irish Language school and learning center. Right now it is only a dream, but I believe it is achievable. I hope that before I die I will succeed in helping to bring together many of the scattered millions who feel as I do, in order to celebrate our ancestral language, and thus breathe more life into the little bit of Eire that lives in each of us. I dream of uniting these communities around the world, and using the electronic communication systems that are spreading Bearla everywhere to spread Gaeilge everywhere instead. I laugh with joy at the thought that someday, every locality into which Irish people have been scattered, may well ring with the sounds of Gaeilge. Think of the massive support that the diaspora Irish could bring to the actual Gaeltacht areas! (Perhaps not so much directly, but in supporting Irish-language media and educational efforts, we could add greatly to the opportunities for native Irish speakers. If communities worldwide began speaking Irish, at least among one another, then people who have Irish as their first language won't necessarily have to speak something else when they travel, (at least in some places.) Native speakers would be treated like royalty, (which in my opinion, they deserve to be already.) I call my dream, An Gaeltacht Dhomhanda. Sin and bhriogloid.

@kimnotkardashian

2 жыл бұрын

if you have a mac you can press alt+e and then the letter you're looking for to produce a fada! Bíodh lá maith agat!

@xotan

Жыл бұрын

A Naomi, is trua liom go bhfuil an freagra seo ag teacht chugat comh déanach, ach ní fhaca mé do phostáil go dtí an mhaidin seo. Seo nod dhuit. Tá ríomhaire glúine agam agus chun an fada a fháil níl le déanamh agam ná an eochair AltGr a choinneáil síos agus ag an am céanna brúigh an guta a bhfuil an síneadh fada de dhíth air. Tá sé an-shimplí ar fad. Tá súil agam go n-oibreoidh sé seo duit. Beir Bua!

I just stumbled upon this interview. I've been finding KZread channels to study the Irish language while I'm on the treadmill each day. So happy I came across this I absolutely love it I've subscribed I'll be following you guys

@Xerrand

Жыл бұрын

You should check out Manchán Magan on the Blindboy podcast. He's brilliant and speaks more about Irish language and legend.

@Whilst_I_giggle

Жыл бұрын

@@Xerrand thanks!

@notme9784

Жыл бұрын

@@Whilst_I_giggle I second that there are like 3 Manchán Magan episodes on the Blind boy podcast and every one is great. Also the whole blind boy podcast is great!

Maith thú, a Mhanchán! Let's also not forget the great Clare poet Aindrias Mac Cruitín's mid-18 th century poem 'Moladh an Pite' (In praise of the female genitals). It is humorous and unflinching in its vivid descriptions....

This man is my hero.

I shared a song on Spotify in the Irish language , with my 13 year old and his friends. They were surprised to learn that Irish is a language. One announced I just thought it was gone because of colonization .

That was superb. Thoroughly enjoyed it.

I don't speak Irish , as working class ,didn't have a great experience of learning Irish, but I know that I think think in Irish

This is absolutely medicinal. Thank you.

As an Indo-European language Irish is equvliant to all other Modern European languages and they all have their unique way of describing the earth and their native places; hence the value of Irish as a modern language. Is mise le meas Mike

Very insightful!!💞💞

Maith thú féin a Mhancháin - inspioráidiúil mar is gnáth.

Fantastic..

🙂

ok so why could not the Irish eat seafood or fish from lakes or rivers or hunt or trap rabbits and small game during the famine? Was it because the landlords or what? The younger fellow started to elaborate on this but changed subject to seaweed varieties before the explanation was finished. thanks

@queenofscrolls7585

2 жыл бұрын

The crown has consistently claimed large areas of natural resources as belonging to them, which makes it ILLEGAL to fish, hunt etc

@holeefuk413

2 жыл бұрын

Cause the lakes and rivers were controlled by land owners and if anyone was caught fishing they would be punished or killed, the brits controlled all the agriculture and people were poor so had no means to fish in the sea

@drts6955

2 жыл бұрын

Try doing those things without experience or equipment. It ain't that easy

@harrypmay

2 жыл бұрын

Some could do this through experience, tradition and location but the reality is that most of the victims of the famine weren’t fishers but small time farmers and labourers who had no expertise, by this point, of catching anything never mind locating where was best to exploit this potentiality by this point in time. They lived off potatoes through convenience and ease so much so when the bight struck they were helpless. Put it this way, planting potato crops took minimal energy and would, blights withstanding, produce enough food to feed your family and then some with absolutely minimal expertise, or effort, required in doing so. There is even a rumour that potatoes were accidentally dropped by the Portuguese, however, the soil caused them become so abundant we lived off them to the port we became heavily dependent (as it’s easier to plant a potato than catch a fish or two at the end of the day.) And that’s really the long and short of it i.e. we had no access to water where fish lay, but had access to an easy to maintain crop and

@user-yu2ok8ek9u

6 ай бұрын

The lakes and the rivers belonged to the landlords and you would have been hung for poaching in the same way you would have been for sheep stealing... or if not hung, at least transported. It suited the landlords to depopulate, and turn the land into "park land" with no one trying to get a living off it. We couldn't fish, because in order to fish, in the sea, you needed a boat, and a boat needed wood, skins, and waterproofing, all of which cost money which the Irish did not have. In order to smoke and preserve fish, you need access to vinegar, salt, wood.... none of which we had or were allowed to take. An Indian maharaja heard about the plight of the Irish people but when his 3 ships came into port, they saw how much food was leaving Ireland and thought he'd made a mistake and they turned back home - Ireland was producing food during the famine, but it was cash crops that the locals weren't allowed to eat it - so that's why so many millions died, surrounded by food... and why so many others were sent to penal colonies - This by way is still an issue in many countries... many African countries produce corn for ethanol that would keep them alive during famine times, but the export culture is more important so they the people die for the exchequer

Bhain sult asamse an clár seo. Thug sé süil liomse leis an todhchaí. Is Gael-Mheiriceánach mise agus Úsáidím Gaeilge ar a líne gach lá beagnach, agus i m'intinn gach lá Is mise le meas, Mike

@internetual7350

10 ай бұрын

Tá do Gaelainn níos mó mo Gaelainn, agus is Éireannach mé, maith thú a chara!

@Gachain

10 ай бұрын

@@internetual7350 GRRMA!! Úsáid do Gaeilge gach lá ar an idirlín, airgead, a chomhair cosúil liomse Béidh feabhas a chur ortse!!

@internetual7350

10 ай бұрын

@@Gachain Níl fadhb ar bith a chara! Úsáidim mo Gaelainn ag t-am go leor nuair a is féidir liom mar ceapaim tá an teanga an-tábhachtach agaidh ár náisiún.

I wonder does Manchán realise we are living through the replacement of the Irish...

Excellent to vindicate the record of Genesis and its incestuous offspring before Abraham, just as with the Pharaohs who kept marrying their sisters without defective offspring

Ah I watched a Great vid from you,goin around Eire...and nobody understand a Word you said?...ISN'T THAT A Shame???..God you'd think at least the Young should should be Educated to be Bilingual???

@tommercury3349

Ай бұрын

Lots of people speak Gaelic in eire

All good stuff apart from promoting Bill Gates.

@jinniroe5002

2 ай бұрын

Gates should be in prison

4:25, I disagree, Manchan is the type of aggressively anti-Anglicized name I would love to name a son. If I get lucky and get two sons… maybe you won’t be the last Manchan. Because I’ve already committed to naming my first son Vercingetorix.

@Thor-Orion

5 ай бұрын

10:35 oh, you mean the Sintashta on the Pontic-Caspian Steppe. They also invented the spoked wheel and domesticated the horse. Highly linked with the spread of haplogroup R1A. But they derived from a population of Corded Ware and their language didn’t pop up out of nowhere, the Celts are the descendants of Bell Beakers who are like the Sintashta descendants of the Corded Ware people. I actually think Proto-Indo-European was spoken in Europe before it was spread by the Sintashta to everywhere else. But the “academics” are still clinging to hope that a yamnaya y-chromosome will show up in a corded ware gravesite at some point. But it won’t, because the academics are even more stubborn when they’re wrong.

Just discovered this amazing fellow (thanks to Richard Kearney). So much that is striking and eye-opening - the incestuous parentage of the king buried in Newgrange - the psychological block against learning Irish due to the memory of the Famine and a whole history of misery - all the fascinating lore about the O Rahilly.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_O%27Rahilly

IRELAND ONLY FOR THE IRISH UNDER GOD-FIGHT AND SAVE YOUR CULTURE AND COUNTRY !!!!