Irish Class, April 20, 2015
Rang Gaeilge, 20ú lá mí Aibreáin 2015
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Monday Night Irish Class, April 20, 2015
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Monday Night Irish Class, April 13, 2015
Irish Class, April 13, 2015
Rang Gaeilge, 13ú lá mí Aibreáin 2015
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Seanfhocal
| 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 |
CRÚBA NA CINNIÚNA
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Monday Night Irish Class, April 6, 2015
Irish Class, April 6, 2015
Rang Gaeilge, 6ú lá mí Aibreáin 2015
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Seanfhocal
| 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
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.
Seanfhocal
| 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
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 |
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| Is fearr an t-ádh ná éirí go moch. |
It is better to be lucky than to get up early. |
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Monday Night Irish Class, March 2, 1015
Irish Class, March 2, 2015
Rang Gaeilge, 2ú lá Mí na Márta 2015
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[Missed class because of the flu, but here are my notes on the homework.]
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Monday Night Irish Class, February 23, 2015
Irish Class, February 23, 2015
Rang Gaeilge, 23ú lá mí Feabhra 2015
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Monday Night Irish Class, February 9, 2015
Irish Class, February 9, 2015
Rang Gaeilge, 9ú lá mí Feabhra 2015
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Seanfhocal
| Spáráil na circe faroigh ar an bhfraoch. | As sparing as the grouse on the moor. | Overly cautious, cheap (Supposedly the grouse only eats what is directly between its feed) |
| Chomh leitheadach leis na cuacha. | As conceited as the cookoos. |
Monday Night Irish Class, February 2, 2015
Irish Class, February 2, 2015
Rang Gaeilge, 2ú lá mí Feabhra 2015
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Seanfhocal
| Rud nach bhfuil is nach mbeidh, nead ag an luch i bhféasóg an chait. | A thing that is not and will not be, the mouse having a nest in the whiskers of a cat. |
féasóg “beard” |
| Chomh dubh le tóin an phúca. | As black as the butt of a pooka. |
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Caibidil 2: Gnáthlá [tuilleadh]
Monday Night Irish Class, January 26, 2015
Irish Class, January 26, 2015
Rang Gaeilge, 26ú lá mí Eanáir 2015
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Seanfhocal
| Ó bearradh na Rónta. | “From when the seals were shaved” | (A really long time ago) |
| Chom Gaelach le muca Dhroichead Átha | “As Irish as the pigs of Drogheda” | (As Irish as can be) Droichead Átha = “bridge of the ford” |
