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Sliocht as an dráma “Coinneáil Orainn” Tá scamaill dhorcha ann.... Heah? Clabhtaí. Ó. Tá cuma na fearthainne air, mar sin fhéin. Tá cuma na fearthainne air, a deirim. Á, muise, éist a sheanchailleach, tá mé bodhraithe at fhéin is ag do chuid 'fearthainne'! Agus, dála an scéil, níl fhios am cá bhfuair tú an focal galánta sin! 'Báisteach' an focal. Báisteach báisteach báisteach! Agus tuileadh báistí. 'Báisteach' a bhí ainn ariamh air, agus dalladh dhi! Agus an lá nach raibh sé a báisteach, bhí sé a múrail! Agus gon uair dheireanach, ná bí a pointeáil an ghunna sin orm! Ó, tẩ's am, tả's am, tảs am. 'Báisteach', dhár ndó. 'Fearthainn' a bhiodh sna leabhartha ar scoil, ach is "báisteach' a bhí ainn sa mbaile - agus dalladh dhi mar a deir tú féin. Brádáin bháistí agus ráigeannaí báistí agus salachar báistí.... ... Agus é a tuile báistí ... ... Agus é a roithle baistí ... ... agus é a dile báistí... ...agus é a clagarnach báistí ... ...agus é a dóirteadh báistí ... Mar a déarfadh m'athair fhéin, go ndéana dia grásta air, ní mé an ndéanfaid sé báisteach ... nó báisteach!!!

Mar a scríobh @darachoscolai.bsky.social -
“Báisteach báisteach báisteach!
Agus tuileadh báistí.” #speirghorm #báisteach

I always thought that was a murrr

I can recommend the various series by Mary Kingswood; a really good period atmosphere and a lightness of touch. Not trying too hard to be Heyer & perhaps set more in Austen’s milieu (some nobility but mostly gentry & often in the countryside). The ebooks are very affordable. Also,
Christina Dudley

Agus tá an leagan seo de Chré na Cille www.litriocht.com/siopa/cre-na...

The same! although in fairness I think it was combined with a trip to Mosney

Labhair mé leis ach faraor, ní raibh aon réiteach aige

There was an elderly Felix in my home parish when I was growing up - probably an unusual Anglicisation of Felim (usually rendered Philip). There was a whole late 19th/early 20c trend of parish priests insisting on official saints names instead of traditional Gaelic names cf.
Diarmaid -> Jeremiah

My mother swears by the Favourite Mincer Marmalade recipe here- getting the stuff out of the oranges is a bit easier ireland-guide.com/blogs/2012/0...

The first sworn soldier book is on Kindle Unlimited, for those who subscribe to that - so are Nettle and Bone, A Sorceress Comes to Call, the Seventh Bride and the Hollow Places

Moladh-go-deo-le-Dia Mac Cnáimhín

I’d expect Eoin to turn up maybe in a monastic context, say as Mac Giolla Eoin

My understanding is that the answer is no, but in the modern era they are pronounced very similarly

I could be wrong re pagan for that particular character as there were a small no. of early insular Christians in the books. But it’s not even the original Irish translation of John, which is Eoin from Iohannis & might have been around in 6th-9th C, It’s the translation of the Norman name Jean.

It does make some fantasy novels impossible to read. (Still thinking of the well-regarded author that had early mediaeval - definitely pre-Norman and IIRC pagan- Irish characters called “Sean” and “Éamonn” . Also “tinkers” whereas travelling people as a distinct population have a much later origin)

An interesting essay. No mention though of machine extraction of turf - she writes as if cutting with the sleán is still the usual process. I’ve stacked turf for drying in my youth and even then it was all machine cut and sleáns only seen in demonstrations.

Kennys are meant to be good for ordering (and they wot of Moniquill, looks like)

Potato

The only surprise with mine is that it’s not surprising

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cualu

Ó Cualann/Great Sugar Loaf Placenames and other information associated with this location.

Maybe related to the Cualann of Ó Cualann, the Sugarloaf ? www.logainm.ie/en/113192

I noticed it in the cinema at the time but I don’t have details noted

In the first film, don’t they work the chapter titles in too?

Photograph of eighth century manuscript St. Matthew’s Gospel with interleaved glosses in Old Irish (on slips bound into manuscript)

Before post it notes were a thing …

The Speir Gorm feed is gone, this replacement Spéir Ghorm collects the same set of hashtags in text and alt-text as the deleted one. #speirgorm

My recollection from my long ago Leaving Cert history class is that most of the antiTreaty side in the debate were concerned about the lack of a Republic and it was almost only the Monaghan TD(s) who were worried about parting with the 6 counties

Ordógaí na lámh nó na gcos, meas tú? (Ag smaoineamh ar m’uncail ag fiosrú i mBéarla tráth, “was it the thumb of his hand or the thumb of his foot?”)

FRI 19TH DECEMBER THEATRE THE NEW THEATRE DOORS 7.00PM IRISH LANGUAGE PLAY LÉAMH DRÁMA 'MUINÍN; LE PADRAIG MAC OSCAIR

#NaSpéiríní #SpéirGhorm

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Is ceardlann agus léamh drama atá I gcéist anseo, Ina bhfuil béim curtha ar rannphairtíocht an lucht feachúna. Bheidh fáilte chuig gach leibhéail Gaeilge agus iadsan gan Gaeilge, a mbeidh túgtha isteach san aireamh.

I don’t have access to my old student notes any more but I remember being struck dumb when I read this

Also when the sheriff calls out the guards in support of his enforcement actions they are technically … a posse

I have tried to use AI for language-related tasks and I’m not sure which annoys me more, its perfect imitation of lazy dishonest incompetence or the grovelling sycophantism of its responses

Good morning. I’ve just finished Martha Wells’ Queen Demon and considering what to read next. Possibly Kate Elliott’s The Nameless Land although that would be two big treats one after the other