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Séamus Ó hÉanaí / Seamus Heaney (1939-2013) Posted by on Sep 6, 2013

(le Róislín) Numerous tributes have been written in memory of Seamus Heaney, Ireland’s premier poet of the mid/late 20th- and early 21st-century, who passed away on August 30.  The facts of his biography are too well known to be entered in detail here, but I will highlight a few key points, i nGaeilge, which may also…

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Foirmeacha Iolra le “-aithe” agus le “-aí” (Plural Forms) Posted by on Oct 24, 2011

(le Róislín) In the last few blogs, we’ve used words like “zombaí” (plural: zombaithe) and “moncaí” (pl. moncaithe), as well as “stocamhoncaí” and “stocamhoncaithe,” for “sock monkey(s).”  It may just be my memory, but I don’t remember stocamhoncaithe zombaí ever being so popular before this year’s Oíche Shamhna (Halloween 2011) In Irish, it would be…

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