Help: pronunciation of irish place names

Subject: pronunciation of irish place names
From: emily rain
Date: 10 Jan 00 - 09:06 PM

i'm wanting to sing follow me up to carlow, but i don't know how to pronounce all the names/places. can anyone help me out? some of these i feel pretty confident of, but just in case, here's the complete list:

McCahir Og
Glenmalure
Feach McHugh O'Byrne
Kildare
Carlow [*shrug* might as well check...]
Glen Imaal
Tassagart
Clonmore
Rory Og O'More

thanks in advance...

Subject: RE: Help: pronunciation of irish place names
From: Mbo
Date: 10 Jan 00 - 10:35 PM

Irish names & places are about the only thing I CAN pronounce! Here we go:

McCahir Og (m'care ohg) BTW "Og" means young, but you probably knew that already...
Glenmalure (glen-ma-loor)
Feach McHugh O'Byrne (fawch m'cue o burn) note that ch's are pronounced like the ch's in challah and Channukah.
Kildare (Killdare) evidement...
Carlow (Carlo)
Glen Imaal (glenimahl) I'm not very sure about this one...
Tassagart (TASSAgart)
Clonmore (clahn moor)
Rory Og O'More (rury ohg o moor)

Overall not that very hard, and I'm sure you had a really good idea about how to pronounce them in the first place...now if Aine comes in here, she might prove the pronunciations wrong, but they'd be darn close. If it's enough for the crowd to understand, it's good enough!:{>

Subject: RE: Help: pronunciation of irish place names
From: emily rain
Date: 10 Jan 00 - 11:13 PM

au contraire, mbo, summa those were definitely new to me. thanks so much for your help!

Subject: RE: Help: pronunciation of irish place names
From: Alan of Australia
Date: 11 Jan 00 - 05:14 AM

G'day Emily,
Here are some links to 4 different recordings in MP3 format (all legal). At least they show how other people pronounce the names.

http://artists.mp3s.com/artists/31/shenanigans.html
http://artists.mp3s.com/artists/55/music_frontiere.html
http://artists.mp3s.com/artists/0/annwn.html
http://artists.mp3s.com/artists/61/bedlam_abbey.html

Cheers,
Alan

Subject: RE: Help: pronunciation of irish place names
From: BDenz
Date: 12 Jan 00 - 09:24 PM

Em, I have a CD Rom program on learning Irish and a whole bunch of books and tapes on Scots Gaelic. Let's look at stuff the next time you're over.

Barb

Subject: RE: Help: pronunciation of irish place names
From: BDenz
Date: 12 Jan 00 - 09:36 PM

Oh, that's if/when you want to learn OTHER stuff, since the explanations here are superb.

B