--- Forwarded Message from Otmar K. E. Foelsche --- >Date: 24 Mar 99 12:00:04 EST >From: Otmar K. E. Foelsche >Subject: Irish Language CD-ROM >To: LLTI-Editor --- Forwarded Message from Fios Feasa <[log in to unmask]> --- >Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 11:51:13 +0000 >From: Fios Feasa <[log in to unmask]> >Reply-To: [log in to unmask] >To: Multiple Recipients <[log in to unmask]> >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