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Language represents an essential component of humanity, revealing so much about culture, heritage, literature, and nearly every human endeavor. In his TEDxBerkeley 2018 talk titled “The Irish Language and Beauty,” Dónall Ó Héalaí shares his personal relationship with the endangered Gaelic language. Recounting ancient legends, singing a traditional Gaelic song and discussing the colonial induced displacement of indigenous culture and practices, Dónall ultimately encourages the audience to consider our own inner selves–aspects of ourselves that we fail to celebrate and hide from the rest of the world. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community.
Dónall Ó Héalaí is an Irish actor and the founder of Celtic Consciousness, an initiative that aims to share the insights and beauty of the Gaelic language with a wider audience and use ancient Irish stories and songs as a medium for self-reflection. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx .
The Irish Language and Beauty | Dónall Ó Héalaí | TEDxBerkeley
Beautiful beautiful talk. thank you ❤️
Beannachtaí leat, a Dhónaill. Go raibh míle, míle maith agat.
My grandma is fully Irish and my ma but my dad isn't. But I am Welsh and English as well but I'm more Irish than them. And recently I wanted to learn it cus I felt I just had such a connection to it. My grandma is fluent and I am learning it now to help to participate to keep it alive. Go raibh míle maith agat.? Níl An teanga Dona ach tá sé go maith go cinnte
Maith thú agus go raibh maith agat. Tír gan tenga tir gan agam
Ceapaim fhéin tá orainn mar daoine Éireannach an teanga seo a spreagadh agus a deanamh níos cailiuil ionas go mbeidh níos mó daoine ag labhairt é!
Convey donegal , he is a nice guy most irish men do not show feelings it's mostly about Irish war songs,and no trespassing
Well I smiled, I cried…And I understood! Gaelic is such a beautiful language, it would be the world's loss if we ever let it fade away!!!! One of my favorite Ted Talks by far!! Loved every minute of it, and even every tear it caused.. Don't let this language die out!!!
@10:30ish. Isn't that the truth?
Isn't that why an Irish wake can be such fun? They can make you laugh when you need it most.
Go n-eiri an bothar linn!
Iontach ar fad
This video touched deeply my heart. To Know that Irish Gaelic is endangered really hurts me… I'm Brazilian, but I've been in love with Irish Gaelic since the first time I heard it in a CD with Irish folk songs bought by my mom when I was 13 year old… now I'm 23 and still hope to be able to learn this beautiful language one day❤️
Never mind. Varadkars goal by 2040 is to destroy ireland and breed us out.
A tar brush traitor who is neither irish nor indian.
All this irish-ness will be gone soon.
I hate Irish and hope to never be forced to learn this ducking language again
What a wonderful video! The only Irish I know however is a pint of guinness or an Irish whiskey 😉
Being from Northern Ireland I’m sad I never got the opportunity to learn the language in school because of politics … I’m trying to learn it now…it’s beautiful
is maith liom an teanga
Dónall Ó Healaí….. its Dónall Healy you snob
Ireland should make Habbib the fighter a special citizen.
If the Jews in Israel revived a long dead language, it should not be hard to regrow a currently live one. All you need to do is create an unshakable pride around it, specially within the youth. Unfortunately to grow Irish you need to also systematically knock down English.
Captivating! Thank you so much for all the beauty. Good luck with literally spreading the word.
can someone please tell me what 'neartachd' means? google translate says something like 'strength' or 'resilience'. I want to get a gaelic tattoo but want to make sure! Thanks
I want to learn Gaelic now. It's such a beautiful language and it's sad that its dying out.
I'm am Ryan clan. We still wave our flag. Griffin
I'm from Portugal, and despite my language being so different, ever since i heard Irish i felt a strong bond and connection as if in a past life i knew how to speak this language… It's a strange but warm feeling. Peace from Portugal!
Maith an fear
I wish I could speak our peoples' native language. I would not be ashamed of it. That really sucks you thought it was a negative.
It is one of the most beautiful languages in the world. Living abroad for over 30 years and I have never fallen out of love with my own language Irish or Gaeilge as we call it. Is deas an teanga an Gaeilge. It was be extremely sad to see it disappear. The method for teaching it needs to change. It must not die, it would be a very sad thing. Listening to you speaking Irish makes me feel proud and it is nice to hear a really native explaining it.
It would indeed be the death of beauty. Irish is so beautiful and so poetic and descriptive. There is not more expressive language in the world
Such a lovely language, I pray the language will stay alive ?
As an Irishman I must say I am very saddened to see that state of our language today our schools make our children less and less interested we must find a new way
Could make a great ASMR storyteller
Go raibh maith agat, dia duit from Macedonia ☺️❤️
I ? Gaeilge! Thank you for this TED talk and all that you're doing Dónall! How beautiful!!!
Great vid!
Mhaith an buachaill
Go breá ar fad! Beautiful!
I love this man — he's really focused and profoundly natural in his original Irish style of delivery!
His message offers a high degree of substance throughout; he's talking with us not shouting at us…!