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Another Irish Word Beginning with the Letter ‘Y’ (‘Yólais’ as well as ‘yó-yó,’ etc.) Posted by on Aug 4, 2018

(le Róislín) A few years ago I ran a mionsraith of blagmhíreanna about Irish words that started with some of the litreacha neamhthraidisiúnta in the Irish alphabet, like v, w, x, and y (naisc thíos).  Among the few examples that we have for “y” are “yó-yó” (not surprisingly, just add the síneadh fada) and yaincín…

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JFK agus a Chúlra Éireannach Posted by on Nov 21, 2013

(le Róislín) Let me start out by saying that other than a Vicipéid article (flagged by Vicipéid itself as containing “droch-Ghaeilge“) and one brief bio in Irish that appears to have been machine-translated (naisc thíos), I haven’t found much biographical information on John F. Kennedy written in Irish.  So this blog will just present the…

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Cé Mhéad Lá? Cé Mhéad Paorach? Posted by on May 11, 2012

(le Róislín) A recent blog in this series on figurative speech in Irish mentioned  “na laethanta go léir a bhí ag na Paoraigh.”  Some of you probably recognized this as a reference to the well-known seanfhocal (proverb):  Beidh lá eile ag an bPaorach (Mr. Power will have another day). So how does this seanfhocal break…

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Logainmneacha Eile: Urú agus Ainmneacha gan “An” Posted by on Jul 15, 2011

(le Róislín) Here are some more possibilities for saying where you live, according to country, to follow up on the flurry of interest after the recent “ghost-town” blog (an blag faoin scáilbhaile).  This blog will just deal with ainmneacha tíortha that don’t include the definite article, like Ceanada, Meicsiceo, Sasana, Stáit Aontaithe Mheiriceá.  Irish, unlike…

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