Welcome to my website. My name is Brian Doyle. I live in St. Charles, Illinois. In the mid-1990's I created this domain with two purposes in mind: 1) to display my work as a freelance graphic designer; and 2) to function as a kind of virtual language lab devoted to the study the Irish language.

It's been many years since I actively managed Gael-Image. I no longer work as a graphic designer and my passion for Irish has been matched by the joys of marriage and fatherhood. As the years go by, practicing an ghaeilgeoireacht has grown a bit more challenging. Nevertheless, hope springs eternal. All that's needed is to put a bit more wood on the embers.

In addition to Gael-Image, I've registered two new domain names, "Gaelic-America.com" and "Gael-Mheiricea.com," which I intend to develop into a dual-language cultural networking site for people interested in collaboratively (re)constructing an American experience inspired by the Gaelic languages, their arts, music, and culture. For me, Gael-Image has always been about embracing a vision or aisling, the spirit of which lies deep in the heart below language. Manifestations of this dream are all around us in popular culture and are often romanticized via nostaligic, misty motifs of Ireland. As inspiring as these motifs often are, we are at the same time trapped by our attachment to the past, which comes paired with that characteristic fatalism and melancholy of a dream dead and gone, "with O'Leary in the grave."

Gaelic-America/Gael-Mheiriceá, therefore, is intended to carry forward our past hopes and cast them anew.

Is mise,
Brian