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Monday Night Irish Class, May 11, 2015

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Irish Class, May 11, 2015

Rang Gaeilge, 11ú lá mí na Bealtaine 2015

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mart cow (meat)
mairteoil beef ←mart + feoil f3
muiceoil pork f3
Má fheiceann tú ceann na muice ar an mart, ná haithris é. You don’t have to talk about every strange thing you see “if you see a pig’s head on a (beef) cow, don’t talk about it.”
bodach churl, lout
An Bodach Orion [the constellation]
Cuartú an bhodaigh ar an láir agus é ar a barr ina shuí. The thing you are looking for is right under your nose. “The lout is searching for the mare, and he is sitting on her back.”

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Monday Night Irish Class, May 4, 1015

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Irish Class, May 4, 2015

Rang Gaeilge, 4ú lá mí na Bealtaine 2015

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Teilg ailp i mbéal an mhadra “Somebody is going on and on, talking too much!” “Throw a lump (of meat) in the mouth of the dog”. [So it will stop barking]
Is ionanna an cás, an t-éag ‘s an bás Six of one, half dozen of the other “It’s the same case, death and death.”

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Monday Night Irish Class, April 27, 2015

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Irish Class, April 27, 2015

Rang Gaeilge, 27ú lá mí Aibreáin 2015

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Níl coill gan brosna a loiscfeadh í. Everyone has their weakness, their Achilles heel. “Every forest has the kindling that would burn it.”
An rud nach leigheasann im nó uisce beatha, níl leigheas air. If butter or whiskey won’t cure you, notbing will.

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Monday Night Irish Class, April 13, 2015

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Irish Class, April 13, 2015

Rang Gaeilge, 13ú lá mí Aibreáin 2015

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Éist mórán agus can beagán. Listen a lot and say little
Ag caitheamh an tsaoil is an saol ár gcaitheamh. Killing time while time is killing us. Lit. “[We are] consuming life and life is consuming us.”
Verbal nouns takes a genitive

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Monday Night Irish Class, April 6, 2015

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Irish Class, April 6, 2015

Rang Gaeilge, 6ú lá mí Aibreáin 2015

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Cuir an sagart i lár an pharóiste. Put the bowl of potatoes in the middle of the table. Lit. “Put the priest in the center of the parish.”
(Nobody has explained how a bowl of potatoes came to be referred to as a priest)
Lá breá ag do chairde — do d’adlacadh. A fine day for your friends — [the day] of your burial.

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Monday Night Irish Class, March 23, 2015

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Irish Class, March 23, 2015

Rang Gaeilge, 23ú lá Mí na Márta 2015

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Missed class, but here are my notes, supplemented by Will’s official version.

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Ná baintear an t-ainm den bhlonag. Don’t take the name off of fat Call fat “fat” — Call a spade a spade
Gealt a chuir tús leis an rince. It was a crazy person who started [invented] dancing.

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Monday Night Irish Class, March 16, 2015

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Irish Class, March 16, 2015

Rang Gaeilge, 16ú lá Mí na Márta 2015

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Bí go moch i do shuí
Is go luath i do luí
Is ní fada go mbeidh tú
Chomh saibhir le rí.		 Be early in your sitting up [waking from bed]
and early in your lying down
and not long you will be
as rich as a king
Is fearr an t-ádh
ná éirí go moch.		 It is better to be lucky
than to get up early.

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