What Does the Irish Word “Sláinte” Mean?
Outside of Scotland, the language for each country is sometimes distinguished as Irish Gaelic and Scottish Gaelic. Their ...
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Five untranslatable Irish words to use during Seachtain na Gaeilge
With Seachtain na Gaeilge here, Fáilte Ireland is celebrating the beauty of our native language by reinvigorating five ...
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What's the Irish for catfish? How 3,000 new Irish words are created every year
Anyone can submit a request for a word to be translated into Gaeilge and a language committee goes to work to draft the new ...
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From póg to obair, how Gaeilge borrowed everyday words from Latin
Irish freely adopted Latin vocabulary during the Christianisation of the country, especially to describe religion, education and daily life ...
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What is the Irish for "Happy St. Patrick’s Day?"
As St. Patrick's Day fast approaches, do you know what the Irish for "Happy St. Patrick's Day” is? Here are a few St. Patrick ...
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‘When I see the words fáilte abhaile in the airport, I know I’m home’
Each time I return to Ireland and see those words in the airport, I know I’m home.” [ ‘I met Gianmarco the day I finished the Inca trail in Peru. Today he is an Irish citizen’Opens in new ...
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Lexicographer at Large – Frank McNally on Dinneen’s Dictionary and the Dáil row about unparliamentary Irish
At least before Dinneen sapped his confidence about what Irish words meant, the columnist was also capable of attributing a “steely, latinistic” exactitude to the language, of which English ...