Joni Morris – When The Party’s Over
Tá ‘s ad nach mbeidh mé riamh gan thú
A fhad ‘s go mbeidh mé n-ann análú
Toram deis breathnaigh mo éadan
Is tú an chúis mé beo ar éigean
Pop goes our mother tongue.
Teenage sensation Joni Morris has already racked up over 20,000 views on YouTube since she posted this mesmerising video of her singing Billie Eilish‘s hit as Gaeilge.
Named after Joni Mitchell, the 14-year-old from Greystones, County Wicklow, cemented her love affair with the Irish language during trips to Colaiste Lurgan in County Galway.
Joni also sings in a trio called Fuze.
Nick says: Billie Irish, anyone?
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Stunning. What a gorgeous singer she is.
+1 that’s hair on the back of the neck stuff
(that’s not to say I’m not beautifully groomed because I am)
Beautiful. Just beautiful.
Incredible! Beautiful voice: I reckon the elder Joni gave her some of her abilities, but she has definitely made them her own.
Which reminds me, I really need to relearn my Gaeilge. I used be as fluent as a secondary school student could be, but 30 years have passed…
Learn Mandarin instead
Sadly, I am tone deaf. Languages such as the various Chinese and Japanese languages are beyond me :(
In segments.
Please don’t ever leave Broadsheet! :)
Pip! Pip!
I speak as Gaeilge, but I was in The Glenties, earlier in The Summer, the lady in the local store, where I’d just bought a pint of milk – I said, “Go raibh maith agat”. She looked at me as if I had two heads. My accent
offended her? Donegal types, what can I tell you? Do relearn, it’s a great language.
I always loved it, and the way it sings in prose! My favourite poems are all as Gaeilge.
Check out this, I say Tá tús maith, leath an t’oibre (A good start is half the work).
https://www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/555913147723626228/
Do bhí Enya ann ar dtúsI
Bhí mé ar teach pobail,, bhí sé Teach Enya – tá sé go leoir ar an nDún Na Gall.
Token Irish… for the summer school bores.
You do a poor impression of rotide.
Don’t we all?
Stop forcing Irish down our throats!
Cuir stop leis an droch Bhearla.