Atheist Ireland Forum

A chairde, bhfuil aon eolas ag daoine ar ghrúpa aindiachaithe le Gaeilge nó rud éigin ar an gcaoi sin? Bheadh spéis agam páirt a ghlacadh ina leithéid. Tá fáil fhorleathan ar sheirbhísí reiligiúnda as Gaeilge ach go bhfios dom níl aon rud ar fáil dóibh siúd gan chreideamh. An bhfuil a fhios ag daoine fiú an raibh a leithéid ann cheana nó an mbaadh suim ag daoine ann?

Míle buíochas.

Zero idea what your asking about. If you want people to respond I suggest you translate.

he allegedly wants to know if people are interested in an atheist Irish speaking group

A bit pointless - why pick a zombie language to converse in? I'm sure most people would rather debate in a language that isn't exclusive to a limited group of elitists.

Not sure on that, I know people who talk to each other in Irish and they're not 'elitists'.
I just doubt there's enough Irish-speaking-atheists who would converse in Irish, it's a double minority group, a minority of a minority. I can't, I can just about manage English with the aid of a dictionary, -5 times just writing this, math is more my kinda language but lets see if we get an Irish reply, if that fails we could always try Klingon.

Ó níor thaitin sin leis na firéin mórán, pé scéal tá aithne agus eolas agam ar chuid mhaith daoine gan chreideamh ach gur Gaeil iad (mar léiriú ar chuardach twitter ansin- https://twitter.com/#!/SeanOBriain agus https://twitter.com/#!/weskos . Ní raibh sibh ró-chabhrach (rud nach gá ar ndóigh) ach shamhlófá go mbeadh sibh ag iarraidh aindiachas a spreagadh. Níl ann ach go mairim tríd an teanga seo ar an gcuid is mó, is go raibh mé ag iarraidh plé le daoine eile tríthi. Is duine mé atá sna fichidí ag cur faoi i mBÁC, b'fhéidir gur 'éilite' atá ann, rud nach gcreidim, ach ní bhúr n-eilite, is léir!

Eoin,

If you are trying to set up an atheist group for Irish speakers, we would be glad to help you.

Can I suggest that - in this forum - it would be helpful if you also translate your suggestions into English, so that those of us who don't speak Irish can discuss your ideas with any bilingual friends that we may have.

Right ill have a stab at it!

"he knows people with Irish who have no faith ....we are not being to helpful ....he thought we might be more encouraging..... hes a lad in his twenties looking for an "elite"??.. he hoped might exist ...bah blah etc "

why he cant fuck**g type all this in "the language of the majority" as he calls it is anyone guess

As a foreigner I have no idea what you wrote and I think that keeping Irish alive is a good thing. I am not sure why you want to mix that with atheism as I can not understand your post.

Being Dutch myself I always found it important that when there is a message to be brought over to do it in a language everyone understands. We (the Dutch) will always issue things in multi languages.

But I totally understand if you would start a Irish speaking group to meet up and moan about religion.

I feel a bit excluded by the post in Irish though as it sounds like only Irish people are welcome. I really would like to learn Irish as I love to know the meaning of place names etc. and my son is learning it at school so I start to pick up some words.

I've been thinking about this, maybe it would be a good idea to have an Irish information page on the main site, we are suppose to be a local voice for atheism in Ireland, but we would need someone who is fluent to do it (Eion?)

Another thing to consider is we have often had media airtime, but have overlooked RnG & TnG, it is a target audience that shouldn't be ignored.

-Sorry off topic but another thing we have overlooked is for example say a German radio station brings up the topic of Irelands Blasphemy Law, maybe it would be usefull to have someone who could talk about it in their language. At least when some of our ministers met EU dignitaries they could have something fun to talk about

Fáilte a Eoin.
Níl eolas agamse ar aon grúpa aindiachas Gaelach ach tá fáilte romhat ceann a chur ar bun.
An tusa an EÓM atá ar an raidio, ó am go h-am?
Le meas, F.

Ba chóir é seo a bheith i mBéarla, a chairde

I'll drink to that. Eoin has made a point but to continue to discuss something in front of others while excluding them is just rude.

I notice Eoin is not a member I wonder if he is just a leipreachán (Irish for troll ).

I agree it would be good to have some of our content translated into Irish. We'd need fluent Irish speaking members to volunteer to do that though.

My own experiences with the language were abysmal - I don't think fear is actually a good motivator for children - I must be an educational hippy or something. But I still think it is worth doing. I predict the issue will be volunteers to actually do the work rather than anything else.

Ní raibh mé ag iarraidh daoine a choinneáil ó dhoras gan Béarla a úsáid ( ach tá google translate Gaeilge ann) ach d'fhéadfainn féin a rá go raibh sibh ag coinneáil daoine le Gaeilge ó dhoras- a rá gur chóir go mbeadh rudaí i mBéarla agus gan aon rud ann i nGaeilge mar a fheictear dom. Ach cuirfead aistriú Béarla ar fáil le go bhféadfadh sibh a rá/scaipeadh le daoine eile. Ní hé go bhfuilim ag iarraidh 'Gaeilge a mheascadh le hAindiachas' mar a dúradh thuas, sa tslí cheánna nach bhfuil tú féin ag iarraidh an Béarla a mheascadh le hAindiachas, ní theastaíonn uaim ach é a phlé i mo phríomhtheanga. Pé scéal, grma as éisteacht is bheadh an-spéis agam tabhairt faoi chuid den ábhar mar a luadh thuas a aistriú. Conas is fearr sin a dhéanamh, is cé ar chóir dul i dteagmháil leo?


I didn't want to keep people out by not using English (but google translate is in Irish too) but I could say the same thing too, I was told to speak English and there seems to be nothing here in Irish, so Irish-speakers are not particularly welcome. I add this translation so that you can share with others. I don't want to 'mix Irish with Atheism' as was said above, in the same way you presumably don't want to mix 'Atheism with English'. Anyway, thanks for listening and I would be very interested to tackle some of the material as mentioned above for translation. How best should I go about this, and who should I contact? grma