Agus Sin Sin…

It is so liberating to finally be free of irish,after the exam I felt like I was a cloud or something = ] but anyway…..

The paper was definitely fair,no real surprises except the odd absence of either fhiannaíocht or ruraíocht from stair na gaeilge but besides that there was nothing to compare with the whole boland fiasco..

Prós ainmnithe was ceart go leor, question on lá buí bealtaine kinda passed me by since I thought meon meant outlook/mindset only to be informed aterwards that it infact means spirit,hopefully my waffly answer about dramatic techniques and senilty etc.etc. will suffice anyway. Character question on fiche blian ag fás was what I was hoping for sine all my notes seem to centre around the teo boyos and their growing up rather then the shananigans themselves or whatever else they usually ask about.

For Ceist 2 my school does ‘a thig ná tit orm’ for dírbheathaisnéisí and that question was again, exactly what i’d hoped for. It was actually like 3 questions roled into one happy little bundle which gave me LOADS to write,well 4 and a bit A4s. Getting asked about saol oibre AND saol soisialta AND coimhlint chiníoch was crazy! the only problem is you had to do them all so i’m guessing that caught some people..? The question on music was far too specific for my likings anyway so luckily i had a good bit for the three in the other question.

Ceist 3 was easy as per usual. I did Níl aon Ní rather then jack because I am a pro at bullshitting when it comes to íomhanna so I was sorted on that one. Question on faoiseamh a gheobhadsa was about as straightforward as it gets too. Two aspects of his life he explores, I think I went a bit waffly here again and went a bit overboard discussing íomhanna but i’ll leave it to the examiner to wade through and sort the relevant from the crap I just made up = ]

Honours poetry could not have been better had i been hiding a sample answer on an chéad dráma in the bathroom! An chéad dráma is definitely the poem my class had done the most work on,and i suddenly see why. Questions weren’t too bad either,I wasn’t really sure what (i) was asking us to write about but I got a fairly long and ‘sounded-like-i-knew-what-i-was-talking-about’ answer out of it anyway.

When I saw the stair first I nearly uttered a very unladylike profanity since I’d studied quite a large amount of utterly useless information only to discover that the only thing that i’d even  looked at that was on the paper was na phríomhchanúintí, and I hadn’t even studied that really I just had a slight idea of it. Thankfully good old cearrbhach mac cabha came to the rescue and I realised that I’d studied the traits of Béaloidis for that and an mathair so I was able to write three reasonable enough points on that. For the dialects I just rambled on about the ways of saying how are you and pronunciation and started quoting from ‘a thig ná tit orm’,not my finest answer but it was better then nothing.

Overall between the two papers i’d say I got a nicely rounded B or perhaps I MAY have scraped a low A with my oral,I’m cautiously optimistic anyway..

Well I best go study for french and….history = [ = [ = […..

Bonne chance to anyway who has fench tomorrow and to anyone doing history..well may god help us all!