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The youth of the West are gone and the old are left behind.
The youth of the West are gone and the old are left behind.
“A person may believe things are real when they are not.
An Béarlóir a scríobhfadh cattles are dear, fishes are plentiful, nach ag deargmhagadh air a bheitheá.
You notice them when they are not there – or when they are in the wrong place.
These are mostly in Irish, though some are written in English and some in Latin.
They are not conveying ideas or feelings, they are just talking in Irish.
There are a few pubs in Temple Bar that are open late.
Bairbre: I’d rather not meet you – things are complicated enough as they are.
There are individual men and women, and there are families”.
In general, the women appear to grow prematurely old; in fact, there are no young women; there are girls and children, the latter pretty, the former less pretty — then all of a sudden they are old, withered, ugly … Perhaps this is the effect of the sea air and mountain breeze, combined with poverty, laziness, and filth; for they are unusually dirty.
Scríobh Cigire Contae Iarthar na Gaillimhe faoi phobal Chonamara: ‘These people are uneducated and Irish speaking and once roused are very wild and savage.’ I mí Eanáir 1915 scríobhadh go raibh an-mheas ar Mhícheál Ó Droighneáin, poblachtánach a bhí ag múineadh sna Forbacha, toisc go raibh oideachas aige, ach ‘most of the people of that locality are very ignorant and semi-illiterate.’ Scríobh cigire ceantair faoi Chois Fharraige: ‘The people there and all along the coast are a very savage race.’
Cé go raibh ‘TOS’ i gcoinne na hiasachta, ghéill sé do ról na hiasachta go stairiúil: ‘There are foreign words as sagart, easpóg [sic], eaglais, leabhar, but they are hollowed by the lapse of centuries, and are now as integral of our language as are the most ancient Aryan root words’ (‘Irish Terminology’, ACS, 23.9.1899).
Deirtear mar shampla21: ‘… the letters l, n and r are reckoned among the aspirable consonants … in writing Irish only nine of the consonants b, c, d, f, g, m, p, s, t are aspirated but in the spoken language all consonants are aspirated.
37 Joseph Ledoux, Synaptic Self: How our Brains Become who we are, 2002
Bhí tine mór i Londain Shasana fadó agus ansin bhí London bridges are falling down ann.
“Stay where ye’s are, he says, I’ll be back soon.
– Any deserters in this house are to come out now!
– Oh dear, arsa Mrs.Kimpton, you are quite the princess!
In Dublin’s fair city Where the girls are so pretty
– My two sons who are far away from me in America!
Granny ag cur síos an citeal; are ye ever goin’ to leave school, son?
What price are these Mam?
‘Are you local?’ arsa mo dhuine.
Briathra neamhrialta are irregular verbs, aren’t they?’
‘What are you doing?’ arsa fear Bhéal Feirste.
‘What are you talking about?’
‘If you ask me,’ ar sí, ‘they are for your father.
Raindrops are falling on my head a bhí ar siúl.
Grammatical details are also given and so are examples illustrating the uses of many words, showing them in their actual setting.
‘Dorota, you are a star.’ ‘Star?
‘Are you twins, or what?’
Ó chuala Are you going to San Francisco?
In all probability the most important mythological motifs are common to all races and peoples.
And what are the results?
An céilí how-are-you!
However, EU officials are playing down expectations that funds from the second EU-IMF bailout for Greece are going to be released today.
Bhí ionadh uirthi nach raibh seirbhís i nGaeilge ag Are Lingus.
Maíodh go raibh os cionn dhá scór iriseoir i láthair ach dúradh leo imeacht as an seomra ‘until we decide who we are and what we are’.
I don’t believe they are our fault.
I believe there are not only many of them than of old, but they are happier, better, more comfortably fed and lodged under our rule than they ever were.
Only six are with shoes.”
All projects are given equal consideration by the judging panel,” a dúirt an t-urlabhraí.
“We are talking about now,” a dúirt Michael Healy-Rae leis an Taoiseach.
We are dealing with the here and now,” a dúirt Michael Healy Rae leis.
That’s where we are today,’ a dúirt Steffen leis an nuachtán The Guardian.
“We are talking about a small minority of schools,” a deir sí.
“There are schools out there who cherrypick children.
There are some guys who, when they are at home, have a big telescope to see what happens in other families.
There are some guys who, when they are at home, have a big telescope to see what happens in other families.
You are out of order.