] New York: Lehman program helps preserve Irish language

[Harold Schiffman]

Forwarded From:  edling at lists.sis.utsa.edu


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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