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Naomh, Neamh, Neamh-, Niamh, Nimh — Which One Pertains to St. Patrick and How Do You Pronounce Them? Posted by on Mar 17, 2016

(le Róislín) Oh, the beauty of péirí íosdifríochta! In the title we see five words that have similar spellings and somewhat similar sounds.   So let’s dig right in and see what the differences are. We’ll start with “naomh” for two reasons.  First, it comes first alphabetically, never a bad reason for sequencing.  Second, this is…

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