# the-irish-for - Sunday 8 December, 2019
When seeing Ulster Scots writing, many people are surprised by how much of it appears readily intelligible to them.
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# the-irish-for - Sunday 1 December, 2019
The Royal Bank of Scotland did not mention the meaning as Gaeilge of their online banking app Bó.
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# the-irish-for - Sunday 24 November, 2019
The Irish artist’s painting Táin was sold for €102,253 at an auction earlier this week.
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# the-irish-for - Sunday 17 November, 2019
We should look at names we don’t understand as something exciting to be figured out, writes Darach Ó Séaghdha.
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# the-irish-for - Sunday 10 November, 2019
In Ireland, the Irish Car Bomb is rarely called anything at all, writes Darach Ó Séaghdha.
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# the-irish-for - Sunday 3 November, 2019
Dances and words travel between cultures in a similar way, writes Darach Ó Séaghdha.
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# the-irish-for - Sunday 27 October, 2019
Oíche Shamhna (Halloween) is fast approaching, which means it’s nearly time for a slice of brack.
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# the-irish-for - Sunday 20 October, 2019
The tale of Úna Bhán and Tomás Laidir is one of many sad stories in Irish literature, writes Darach Ó Séaghdha.
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# the-irish-for - Sunday 13 October, 2019
Coleen is derived from cailín, the Irish word for a girl, writes Darach Ó Séaghdha.
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# the-irish-for - Sunday 6 October, 2019
It’s easy to lose the wordplay on English words when translating into Irish.
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# the-irish-for - Sunday 29 September, 2019
The Irish language has many names for different creatures in the wild.
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# the-irish-for - Sunday 22 September, 2019
The banning of Irish language books was less frequent even though the authors produced writing which dealt with provocative themes.
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# the-irish-for - Sunday 15 September, 2019
Do you know your banshee thimbles from your blue hatreds?
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# the-irish-for - Sunday 8 September, 2019
How much do TV shows influence children’s pronunciation and phrases?
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# the-irish-for - Sunday 1 September, 2019
The Irish constitution drew inspiration from others, but did not include the right to bear arms.
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# the-irish-for - Sunday 25 August, 2019
Designating certain areas far away from Dublin as Gaeltachtaí, and then denying them investment so they’d stay that way- was a dreadful mistake.
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# the-irish-for - Sunday 18 August, 2019
Translating well-known books to Irish could be the best way to get pre-teen bookworms learning Irish.
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# the-irish-for - Sunday 11 August, 2019
Story-time is a great way to teach preschoolers píosa Gaeilge, writes Darach Ó Séaghdha.
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# the-irish-for - Sunday 4 August, 2019
In Irish, August is Lúnasa, named in honour of the ancient god Lú, writes Darach Ó Séaghdha.
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# the-irish-for - Sunday 21 July, 2019
The calling to travel beyond the Earth owes itself to mythology as well as science, writes Darach Ó Séaghdha.
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# the-irish-for - Sunday 14 July, 2019
Some languages are intimately associated with religions but not Gaeilge, writes Darach Ó Séaghdha.
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# the-irish-for - Sunday 7 July, 2019
Book series translated from one language to another can lead to complications as the plot thickens, writes Darach Ó Séaghdha.
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# the-irish-for - Sunday 30 June, 2019
If you’re going to insult someone, do it properly, writes Darach Ó Séaghdha.
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# the-irish-for - Friday 28 June, 2019
Cleese said that Irish names look like deliberate attempts to mislead innocent people but this is not the case, writes Darach Ó Séaghdha.
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# the-irish-for - Sunday 23 June, 2019
The Brexit process should be a golden age for satirists and comedians, but unfortunately, something else has happened, writes Darach Ó Séaghdha.
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Samhradh comes with a sense of disappointment, rarely delivering on its promises of sunshine and gaiety, writes Darach Ó Séaghdha.
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# the-irish-for - Sunday 26 May, 2019
To translate the meaning of Bridezilla effectively we need to pop the bonnet of the word and look at the moving parts, writes Darach Ó Séaghdha.
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# the-irish-for - Sunday 19 May, 2019
The word appears to originate before 1900 in parts of Ireland where spoken Irish was high and literacy was low, writes Darach Ó Séaghdha.
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# the-irish-for - Sunday 12 May, 2019
Sometimes Béarla and Gaeilge are presented as being in conflict in Ireland, but they’re both part of our cultural heritage, writes Darach Ó Séaghdha.
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# the-irish-for - Sunday 5 May, 2019
J. R. R. Tolkien once tried to learn Irish in Galway but he dismissed the language as suffering from “fundamental unreason,” writes Darach Ó Séaghdha.
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# the-irish-for - Sunday 28 April, 2019
Thanks to Queen Bé, April 2019 has been an interesting month for accessorised letters, writes Darach Ó Séaghdha.
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# the-irish-for - Sunday 21 April, 2019
‘Thousands of Irish people know their rights if they’re arrested in America but not if they’re arrested in Ireland… and nobody would know what mitosis was if it wasn’t for Sabrina,’ writes Darach Ó Séaghdha.
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# the-irish-for - Sunday 31 March, 2019
Sure enough, one of the longest, best laid-out and most carefully edited pages in An Vicipéid is the page on Star Trek, writes Darach Ó Séaghdha.
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# the-irish-for - Sunday 24 March, 2019
Bannaí means bail and is not to be confused with banaí which means a womaniser, writes Darach Ó Séaghdha.
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# the-irish-for - Sunday 17 March, 2019
If you’re doing your Irish oral exam next week – you’ll need to know how to say ‘confidence and supply agreement’ and ‘frictionless border’, writes Darach Ó Séaghdha.
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# the-irish-for - Sunday 10 March, 2019
George Orwell said that history was a palimpsest – a chalkboard which could be scraped clean and reinscribed, exactly as often as necessary, writes Darach Ó Séaghdha.
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# the-irish-for - Sunday 3 March, 2019
Satire (Áer) was taken as seriously as physical assault in old Ireland and a range of satirical offences were deemed to warrant compensation, including ‘coining a nickname that sticks’, writes Darach Ó Séaghdha.
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# the-irish-for - Sunday 24 February, 2019
Did the knights of the Fianna use their frithbacáin (handbrake) to do doughnuts, and other boy racer tricks, in the medieval equivalent of an industrial estate? wonders Darach Ó Séaghdha.
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# the-irish-for - Sunday 17 February, 2019
Social trends are reflected in different names, writes Darach Ó Séaghdha, whose first name means “like an oak tree”.
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