Hi there, my parents have a beautiful piece of bushland which they are preparing to live on self sufficiently. They want to give their new home the name of MYSTICAL DREAMING or MYSTICAL DREAMS in Irish Gaelic as Irish is part of my Mother¹s heritage. Can you please help us as­ I have tried to find such a translation on the internet, but to no avail.

Also, if you can help with a translation, we would also like the correct pronunciation for the words so that we know we will be saying it correctly.

There are several words for dream in Irish.

The one best suited to your purpose is "Aisling" a vision

Not sure on mystical, I'd tend to leave it as "Aisling" which is fairly easy to pronounce.

I'll check a dictionary later for possible translations of mystical,

The dictionary gives mistiúl for mystical, but I prefer diamhair "mysterious"

Aisling diamhair - a mysterious vision

Ag Aisling go diamhair - having mysterious visions

I'd go for the first version myself.

Hopefully someone else will weigh in with a pronunciation. I speak the language, and I just can't get the hang of using english to express pronunciation. Not to mention the fact thar english as spoken in Ireland sounds different to English as spoken in NZ.....

Aonghus is right. English approximations are always a dangerous thing, given our different pronunciations, but this from a Yank. Capitals indicate stressed syllable:

ASH-ling DJEE-uh-wirr.

-- Toma/s