Irish Language Blog
Menu
Search

Tag Archives: welt

Agus Riabha (Cuid a Dó de “Réaltaí agus Riabha”) Posted by on Jun 23, 2011

(le Róislín) To continue with our theme of “Réaltaí agus Riabha,” let’s now look at the possible words for “stripes.”  There are a number of possibilities, and none of them is really etched in stone for our use here, since they’re all given as an attempt, somewhat speculative, to translate the phrase “Stars and Stripes…

Continue Reading

Cén Ghaeilge Atá ar “To Take a Shellacking”? Posted by on Nov 4, 2010

It’s fascinating to me when 1930s slang shows up in today’s political headlines, as happened recently with President Obama’s now famous use of the phrase “to take a shellacking.”  Even more fascinating to me, as you may have guessed, is to ponder how this might be expressed in Irish. It’s a two-part investigation.  First, we’ll…

Continue Reading