| Title: | Celt Notefile |
| Moderator: | TALLIS::DARCY |
| Created: | Wed Feb 19 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Tue Jun 03 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 1632 |
| Total number of notes: | 20523 |
Could anyone translate the following?
Tir Na n Og......
Thanks, Mary
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| 1196.1 | Land of eternal youth | BERN02::BYRNE | Wed Mar 17 1993 07:40 | 11 | |
Tir = land
na = of
n = the (used in conjunction with na)
og = young, youth
Legendary land where one always remained young.
Best known in the Irish folk story "Niamh agus Oisin"
agus = and
Therese
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| 1196.2 | thanks! | TUXEDO::MOREY | Wed Mar 17 1993 13:34 | 4 | |
Thanks so much!.....There is a young girl who is going to do a
one act play and that's what it's entitled....
Mary
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| 1196.3 | riverrun past Eve and Adams'... | BIS6::SPITAEL | Thu Sep 02 1993 12:21 | 18 | |
Hi,
I'm Jan (John, Sean,...) I live in Belgium and caught the Irish fire
by the books of Joyce. Recently I bought an "Learning Irish" book.
The most difficult part is the pronounciation, especially when you
can't her it from an Irish mouth. To come to the point.
Who can translate the following sentence in Gaellic ?
"Why Irish Eyes Are Smiling"
Thanks in advance
Sla'n
PS: A Guinness, a Guinness, my kingdom for a Guinness.
Kind regards from the land of the "beoir"
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| 1196.4 | TALLIS::DARCY | Alpha Migration Tools | Thu Sep 02 1993 12:47 | 13 | |
Hi Jan,
Do you mean "When Irish Eyes are Smiling"?
-> Nuair s�il gaeilge ag g�ire
"Why Irish Eyes are Smiling"
-> C�n f�th s�il gaeilge ag g�ire
Is there a more proper word for smiling? Gaire usually refers
to laughing, doesn't it? Also, I'm probably missing the proper
aspirations/lenitions too...
/George
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| 1196.5 | from swerve of shore | BIS6::SPITAEL | Mon Sep 06 1993 04:58 | 16 | |
Thank you George !
I believe it was "Why Irish eyes are smiling", it was from an
advertisement for Guinness !!!
And the translation of "little owl" ?
Thanks in advance
Jan
Sla'n
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