New York: Lehman program helps preserve Irish language

[Francis Hult]

The Bronx Beat

 

Lehman program helps preserve Irish language

 

Dierdre O'Boy, 41, was born of an Irish father and Irish-American mother in New York. Despite coming from such a strong Irish background, she said she wondered why the English-speaking Irish sound so "poetic." 

"It seems that so many phrases are simply a mirror of the literal in Irish, if that makes any sense," she said. "For example 'Tá ocras orm' literally means 'I have hunger on me.'" 

O'Boy is one of the 120 students studying at Lehman's Irish language program begun three years ago. At a recent visit to the college, Brian Ó Cuív, Ireland's Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs minister, noted that students like O'Boy are contributing to the revival of Irish language and heritage.

 

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