{"id":10229,"date":"2014-07-23T16:59:08","date_gmt":"2014-07-23T16:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=10229"},"modified":"2014-07-23T16:59:08","modified_gmt":"2014-07-23T16:59:08","slug":"oideas-gael-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=10229","title":{"rendered":"Oideas Gael"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m having a wonderful time in Gleann Cholm Cille learning to play the harp and speaking plenty of Irish. The course is going really well &#8211; we started with basic techniques, and have learnt a number of tunes, including some from the <a href=\"http:\/\/comhaltas.ie\/blog\/post\/the_boroimhe_suite_1014_2014\/\">B\u00f3roimhe \/ Brian Boru suite<\/a> by Michael Rooney. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve videoed our teacher, Ois\u00edn Morrison, playing all the pieces we&#8217;ve learnt so far, and he&#8217;s going to give us some more pieces to learn at home.<\/p>\n<p>People come here from all over the world on holiday and to do courses at Oideas Gael &#8211; this week you can do Irish language classes, harp playing, or hill walking &#8211; so there are opportunities to speak quite a few languages, including French, German, Swedish, Mandarin, Dutch and Scottish Gaelic. I&#8217;ve even learnt a bit of Serbian from a Bosnian woman who is studying Irish here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m having a wonderful time in Gleann Cholm Cille learning to play the harp and speaking plenty of Irish. The course is going really well &#8211; we started with basic techniques, and have learnt a number of tunes, including some from the B\u00f3roimhe \/ Brian Boru suite by Michael Rooney. I&#8217;ve videoed our teacher, Ois\u00edn [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,102,104,111,116,127,10,13,29,38,57,67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese","category-dutch","category-english","category-french","category-german","category-irish","category-language","category-language-learning","category-music","category-poetry","category-serbian","category-swedish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}