Clare Author Publishes Reflective Guide To Living Irish Every Day

0:00I'm joined by an ennest native and founder of Bite Size Irish, Owen O'Coureros, just published a new independent book that's here in front of me, Shoknavala, Seven Ways, Field Guide to Gaelga Galk Law, launching during Horshokna Nugelga, which we spoke about last week. The book encourages small, meaningful daily actions from speaking and listening to, reflecting, helping people reconnect with the language, without any pressure or perfection, own a very good morning to you. Dear Great, come and sit down. Not too bad at all, not too bad, gargolore, et cetera, et cetera. Talk to us a bit about the new book. Congratulations on it, by the way. I was complimenting you on the aesthetics of it, visually, but it's the contents that really matters. Why did you feel this content was important to get out there? Yeah, people with the Irish language, we carry so much baggage. And it's a way of letting the language into your life. Kind of side-stepping that stuff. Away from shame, excuses, and oh, I should be better. Now, we don't need to let the language in that way. We can side-step it and let the language into your life,

1:00into your identity. And it doesn't have to be heavy. And I think that is a big problem, isn't it? And we touched on it in our chat, Wittley and Natalt again, Rurie Henshief, a bow's chocolate and a gag, and last Friday, that the opportunities to speak, just in small, little conversational ways, people think of the camps, jump into being able to be nearly fluent. They're hesitant to speak Irish. And that's a big drawback. Drawback that we need to get over. Yeah, like going up and in as for me, I have to deal with the way I have. It always felt like, oh, it's not way into Irish. It's not proper or real Irish. It's not up to par. It's not up to par, and I have to deal with that for myself. And people carry their own baggage, you know, there's the whole shame from school time as well. And it's kind of coming back to the language. For me, it's these webs of meaning. We get so much deeper into Irish culture and connection and sense of belonging as well.

2:02Like Mujan Hildfort, down the road in Newmarket. That's been there about 3,000 years. Probably there was speaking some foreign and Irish building that. It's just amazing. It brings us right back and to the present. It is a point we forget that Cyrus is one of the oldest languages in Europe. How will this book benefit people on a guide to a gale like a gaukla and living Irish every day? Is it in little small chunks that people can use? And if so, how do they go about that? Yeah, it is in small chunks. It's a weekly rhythm. So for me, if you have like a team for every Monday, every Tuesday, you can always come back to that. It's like a never ending. It's a lifelong journey. It's what I call it. So it's actually a bilingual guide. And you've got the Irish on one side. And the same, the English on the other. And there's QR code. So you can scan the QR code and listen on your phone. So I've recorded the Irish party. You can listen as well.

3:03So it's about jumping in. You don't need, it's not a novel. So you just jump in and take bite-sized pieces, as we say. Yeah, I think war and peace are scary. You might scare people off. That is for sure. I think that's handy as well. The QR code is a nice little idea because it's one thing to be reading it, but to be able to hear correct pronunciation of words and so on, will really help people come along. Yeah, it's always people have, and I've dealt with, you know, hundreds of people over the years through bite-sized Irish. People will always bring me back to what they need. And for me, I wanted to write it. I realized two things, actually. I needed to write it, ask where I'd get first, because I started in English. And I was like, no, it's not getting into the authenticity of it. The other one was, I had to do it on paper. I opened the laptop, just wasn't working for me. So I sat down. You went all through. Went all through. And it came out. I didn't even realize there was going to be a book at the start,

4:03but it wanted to be. So you can get it in Ennis and the Hinge bookshops, and online as well from Bite-sized Irish. From Bite-sized Irish, brilliant stuff. And great time to have it out there. And shocked them to get it. Why not pick it up and bring along your Irish and with this reflective guide to living Irish every day. It's called Shopped Valorke, seven ways of field guide to Gilgur Gachla on. Well done, Anna. Thank you. And there's a lot, John. When's the 11th of March at 7 p.m.? It's in scale-ele books in the Ennis market. Brilliant stuff. Oh, no, for her. Thank you very much. Gromagot, August Long of all. Thanks for joining us.