Irish Essays

biofreak

Anybody know where I can get examples of Irish essays on the net? Or help with writing Irish essays?

declan_lgs

I tried quite-hard to find some Irish essays on the net a while back, and didn't get anything decent.

For the help bit I suggest you get the less stress more success book for Irish. They've got some good sample essays in them, and useful phrases.

PurpleFistMixer

Try taking a look at some of the resources here for general Irish things.

As far as the essay writing goes, I suggest learning the more complicated phrases which you might need to use in most essays. (Your typical lines like "I'll never forget the day" or various similes like "as quiet as the grave, as white as a ghost" etc.) I'm fairly against the idea of learning off entire essays. I think it's much better if you just get yourself a good grounding of grammar and vocabulary so you can construct whatever you need on the day.

That said, that's somewhat similar to going "sure, just become fluent in Irish and all your problems will be solved", so obviously you're going to have to learn a couple phrases, even short ones, off

And just sort of, thing about some general plot lines for stories that you can use for lots of different starting points. It's one thing being stuck for literal wording of sentences, but if you go in and spend half your exam trying to think of a plot for your story you're going to get into a total panic.

Hum. I realise that I've been talking solely about story-writing (since that is the only option my class did), but... meh, it basically applies to whatever kind of an essay - be it a general essay or a debate or a speech or whatnot - you're going to do.


Another thing my Irish teacher was always ranting at me was not to use over complicated language. Don't try and use grammar that you don't know, because you'll end up making mistakes and, apparently, one of the big things they're looking for in Paper 1 is grammar (ugh). Chances are, if you're trying to construct a sentence, there's a simpler way that you know how to form, and you should go with that.

However, at the same time, don't just use "I went to the shop. I bought an icecream. It was nice. I went home" kind of stuff. You need to have SOME interest (or as my Irish teacher would say, 'richness of language') in what you're writing. Make it a little complex, but not to the state where you're making mistakes left right and centre.

BlueRollingPin

I agree with PFM. I found all the phrases I learnt to be really useful when doing the exam. Or like declan_lgs suggested, the Less Stress, More Success revision books are brilliant! If you still want some sample essays, why don't you just talk to your teacher - I'm sure they'll be more than happy to give you some.

liamskater

www.e-xamit.ie got one there for xmas test full marks o yeah!

lilmissprincess

I think skoool.ie do them, well they did last year. And yeah, in my Irish book there are tons of them, just make sure you get the right meaning for phrases, ask the teacher. Ours was talking about putting h's and extra i's in today, can change a word completely. My spelling in Irish is atrocious. God help me.

liamskater

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Killaqueen!!!

I can't do essays for my life...*cries*

Coming on here made me realise how much I'm going to FAIL! lol

Essays are annoying because I can't write them at all, I'd rather just learn off essays than those stupid phrases.

ivanh

Can anyone tell me that if a topic you've covered comes up as an aiste on the exam paper (LC HL), can you write it as a debate?

It would really help if I was able to add in the opening/closing paragraphs to fill up the page

Thanks!

Pen Rua

My teacher suggested learning a few eachtras. They're Option B, I think, and if you learn just a few, you can chop and change bits and pieces from each to suit the title given.

Bazinga_N

ivanh wrote: »

Can anyone tell me that if a topic you've covered comes up as an aiste on the exam paper (LC HL), can you write it as a debate?

It would really help if I was able to add in the opening/closing paragraphs to fill up the page

Thanks!

I'm learning 'An Timpiste Bothar Off' you can stick it in somewhere every year.