ABSTRACT
Activities that take much planning in many communities in Cois Fharraige and further west in Connemara are féilte or festivals. There are festivals in many coastal villages of which the most prominent activity is boat races with the húicéara “hooker” and the curach. This chapter presents stimulating exercises with lively illustrations in Irish showing how Irish speakers asking when an activity will take place, inviting others to participate and arranging a meeting time and place. It explains the usage of a bheas and future of bí, and also describes the formation of words in future tense. Similar to the simple future form of bí, beidh, the future form of other verbs uses one form in the future for all persons, singular and plural. The simple future in Irish is often constructed by taking the simple present form of the verb, removing the ending, and adding the appropriate future ending.
