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(le Róislín)

Since we’ve dealt with so many flowers in recent blogs, either as ainmneacha cailíní (Bláithín, Nóinín, srl.) or as the flowers themselves (Nóiníní, Caisearbháin, Cama an Ime, srl.), I thought it would be fun to look for film titles that have a similar theme.  So in this blogpost we have 30 titles of movies, which I’ve translated into Irish, leaving a blank for the flower term.  Most of them are quite well known films, and I’ve included the year, and a key feature (like star, author, or genre), to help.  As you work on them, remember to keep in mind if the word should be plural or possessive, or, Irish being Irish, whether it has an initial mutation, like séimhiú or urú.  Tá súil agam go mbainfidh tú sult as.  Beidh na freagraí sa chéad bhlagmhír eile.

In two cases, it’s actually a form of the word “flower” not a specific type of flower that’s involved.  And one answer is actually a part of a flower, not a type of flower.

Leid: baineann aon ainm déag (11 names) le rósanna!  Someday, someone should do a study of all flowers used in film names.  Based on what I found for this survey, I think that roses would top the list, and then lilies or tulips would be next.  Ach bíodh cuimhne agat, ní go díreach “rós” atá ann, cuid den am, ach amanna, an uimhir iolra nó an fhoirm sa tuiseal ginideach.

In a few cases, more than one date is given, because the film was remade.  But in most cases, I avoided na leaganacha athdhéanta because sometimes they’re not really the same story at all, just the teideal and maybe ainmneacha na bpearsana being recycled.

I also mostly avoided cases where the flower is simply used as a girl’s or woman’s name.  I tried to emphasize those where bláthanna are actually part of the téama, either literally or abstractly or symbolically.

If there are two blanks, the flower name requires two words in Irish (not necessarily in English).  This can happen constantly when we compare two languages, by the way — one simple example would be “Belfast” in English (one word) and “Béal Feirste” in Irish (two words).

BTW, I tried to find an actual Irish language film with a flower in its name, but I couldn’t think of any.   An féidir leatsa smaoineamh ar shampla ar bith?  It seems like there should be something about roses, but nothing came to mind.  We have “Róisíní” go leor in song and story, but the word doesn’t seem to show up in film titles, fad m’eolais.

Nuair a bheas sé seo críochnaithe agat, sílim go mbeadh sé úsáideach mar thionscadal ranga nó do chiorcal comhrá.  (When you’ve finished this, I think it would be useful as a class project or for a conversation circle).  Go mór mór más múinteoir thú!

Turas síos “Memory Lane” atá i gceist i gcuid de na hainmneacha seo, ar ndóigh!   Ádh mór! – Róislín