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Titles, Quotes, and Sayings in Irish to Practice Terms for ‘Daoine Muinteartha’ (Family Members), Cuid/Part 2 Posted by on Nov 30, 2016

(le Róislín) Seo cuid 2 (cuid a dó) den mhionsraith le teidil, athfhriotail agus seanráite a bhfuil téarmaí do bhaill an teaghlaigh (“family members”) iontu.  As previously (nasc thíos), some of these are traditional  proverbs in Irish and the others are quotes, paraphrases, or classic book, movie, or TV program titles that I have translated into…

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Titles, Quotes, and Sayings in Irish to Practice Terms for ‘Daoine Muinteartha’ (Family Members), Cuid/Part 1 Posted by on Nov 28, 2016

(le Róislín) Aithreacha, máithreacha, deirfiúracha agus deartháireacha agus a thuilleadh.  Fathers, mothers, sisters, brothers, and more.  Today’s blogpost consists of a few traditional proverbs in Irish and a variety of quotes, paraphrases, and classic book, movie, or TV program titles that I have translated into Irish or written in Irish.  In each case, a key…

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25 Ways to Say ‘Family’ in Irish, Cuid a hAon (Pt. 1) Posted by on Feb 25, 2016

(le Róislín)   In a recent blog (nasc thíos), we examined the word ‘muirín,’ one of many Irish words for ‘family.’  As you may recall, we looked at “muirín” in comparison to a homograph (muirín as “a scallop,” of all things!) and also in comparison to the similarly-spelled múirín, which has two distinct meanings, 1)…

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