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As time continues to pass by, we grow more detached from a time when we had native Irish speakers throughout Kilkenny. Our county has had its own storied ...

She was then 78 years of age and Irish was the language of her home in Mullinakill until she was 20 years old. This is a common shift in many languages. This is a diary kept by Amhlaoibh Ó Shúilleabháin. “A dictaphone recording of the Ossory dialect was taken in 1933 from the late Mrs. “The audio is not clear and can be difficult to make out. Many vowels are raised in the presence of a nasal consonant. “A number of excellent materials exist for learning Waterford Irish. “It has an interesting spot in the dialect continuum sharing qualities with Irish from all provinces and for anybody from the historical area of Ossory, it is of course the dialect of our recent ancestors whose language died too soon.” There is a small but studious and dedicated linguistic community online who are trying to piece together all the facets of the Kilkenny dialect and Rián is one of the cogs in that machine. De Paor is telling a story and so is presumably using a storytelling register different from casual speech and de Paor likely also hadn’t been used to speaking the language in several decades and there is a good bit of interference of English in his Irish.” Ossory was a medieval Irish kingdom comprising what is now County Kilkenny and western County Laois, corresponding to the Diocese of Ossory (pictured in deep red) “A better way would be to first learn a living Irish dialect to a middling level and adapt your Irish until it conforms with the materials currently available.