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>Date: 24 Mar 99 12:00:04 EST
>From: Otmar K. E. Foelsche
>Subject: Irish Language CD-ROM
>To: LLTI-Editor



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>Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 11:51:13 +0000
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>Subject: Irish Language CD-ROM

******Ní sháródh an saol an seanfhocal.******
***The whole world couldn$E2t best a proverb.***

*Seanfhocail* is an innovative bilingual CD-ROM of
501 Irish proverbs, sayings, blessings, and curses,
collected from residents of all ages in the West Kerry
Gaeltacht, a contemporary community where Irish is
the everyday language. Each saying is displayed
audiovisually: on screen in both Irish and English,
and through the speakers in the form of a high-quality
recording of a native speaker. Explanatory notes and
grammatical analysis are available at the touch of a button.
An introductory essay on proverbs, associated folktales,
extensive search facilities, on-line help, and a few
$E3Easter egg$E4 surprises round out the interactivity
of the program.

*Seanfhocail* has something to offer students in a variety
of disciplines. Scholars of Celtic studies, linguistics and
modern foreign languages will have an obvious interest
in the grammatical analysis and the recordings of native
speakers. Students of English literature can use it as a tool
to contextualize the rich differences they perceive in
Anglo-Irish literature, discovering background crucial to
the work of Yeats, Gregory, Synge and others. Workers
in Comparative Studies will be intrigued by the unusually
immediate juxtaposition of language practice stemming
from a bilingual community. *Seanfhocail* offers an
in-depth study of the Irish language, of ethnography, poetics,
linguistics, semiotics, and of the strong social and aesthetic
values of a community which has not readily submitted
to colonisation.

The CD-ROM is fully interactive and media-rich; it runs
on both Windows 95/98 and Macintosh platforms. It$E2s
available for IR£25 (about US$35 at the moment), plus
a modest charge for packaging and postage. More
information and a free demo version can be had at the
website www.fiosfeasa.com. Electronic orders can be
placed from a secure page at the same site; same
business-day turnaround is guaranteed. Orders can also
be placed by regular post, phone, or fax.



Fios Feasa -- Irish Multimedia CD-ROMs
www.fiosfeasa.com