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Béigil: Uaine nó Glas? (Which Type of ‘Green’ for Bagels?) Posted by on Mar 27, 2013

(le Róislín) I figured there would be a lot more online references to “green beer” than to “green bagels” and, iontas na n-iontas, that was the correct assumption.   When you search for the terms in Irish (beoir ghlas, beoir uaine, béigil ghlasa, béigil uaine), the numbers for both drop dramatically. Not that there are that…

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Lá Fhéile Pádraig Posted by on Mar 11, 2011

(le Róislín) As we prepare to celebrate Lá Fhéile Pádraig, this might be a good time to review some phrases from previous St. Patrick’s Day blogs and to add some new ones. Ar dtús, let’s go back to the very first blog in this series (https://blogs.transparent.com/irish/la-fheile-padraig/), which introduced quite a few terms, among them: glas vs. uaine…

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