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And for those in the san francisco bay area there's Rock the Gates summer festival at the United Irish Cultural Center on aug 22nd!

💃🏻☘️ https://irishcentersf.org/event/4th-annual-rock-the-gates-summer-fleadh-2 🌞🎻

Tá Gaeilge agam!

First time as a vendor and have been busy researching tips & tricks to get ready. Think I did a decent job 😍

Got a bunch of my merch ready for this event to sell in-person as well as getting shipping setup so people can order at the booth with more options

I was inspired to design my own merch since I was tired of everything being “kiss me I’m Irish” or “pog mo thoín” which is kiss my ass in Irish. Mine also feature the California vibe for modern Celtic clothing. I also made dog toys

Excited for the multicultural festival today. I have handouts to help people learn a cúpla focal (couple of words)

OBAIR (WORK in Irish)

I've been busy designing merch featuring Celtic languages and illumination with a California vibe ❤️

🥳🎆 agus oibrímid le chéile a future níos fearr

A chairde Gael i Meiriceá, Lá na Saoirse sona daoibh! 🎆

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Ireland’s National Emblem? A Harp. Sorry, but no other country comes close to that level of cool.

No musical instrument has ever had to carry so much baggage - The Story of the Irish Harp is integral to Ireland and Irish culture. Based on the ancient lyre, the Irish harp is one of the world’s oldest instruments. The ancient Irish kings employed harpists to entertain them, so harpists held great prestige in society. Gaelic society was the dominant social structure across Ireland and the Scottish Highlands up until the 1600s. These two territories were intimately connected. At one sad point in Irish history, British invaders made it illegal to possess an Irish harp and set out to burn every Irish harp in a failed attempt to kill the “Irish spirit.” Then, the preservation of ancient Irish harpists’ music became a challenge.

- Leading harp maker, John Egan, who worked in Dublin from 1801-1841 - During his illustrious career, he made more than two thousand harps including this beauty!! 💚

Tá sé diabhalta te 🏖️🥵☀️

“It is devilishly hot.”

Grug might be the coolest fomorian but even he has trouble in our heat waves 😎

What projects would you want to work on here? 🖼️

Being surrounded by beautiful art can be inspiring or just create a good vibe to get some work done

🚀 Our first minigame is available on the site for early access!

Play → https://love.irish/arcade/matching-game

Match the records (St. Patrick's Day vocab for now) to earn EXP & rewards like avatars and banners. Progress isnt tracked in early access but can still practice.

At launch there will be three game modes: random, collection (shown in the demo) where records from a collection are used as options and personalized which uses your codex experience to customize a learning plan using magic like spaced repetition learning 🤓 You'll also be able to compete with others on the seasonal leaderboard to unlock more rewards

As Irish language learners, our goal is to create things to help make learning Irish & the other Celtic languages fun for people in the global diaspora ❤️