Suggested for seanfhocal: Is glas iad na cnoic iad bhfad duinn.

This is a direct translation of "faraway hills are green". The one I would normally use in this case is "Tá adharca fada ar na ba thar lear", meaning foreign cows have long horns.

Tá an leagan "Is glas iad na cnoic i bhfad uainn" ag an Seabhac ina Leabhar "Seanfhocla na Mumhan"

I'm not sure it isn't the other way around, i.e. that "faraway hills are green" isn't a translation from the Irish.

Thanks Patrick for the suggestion. We added your seanfhocal to our list yesterday. See

http://www.daltai.com/proverbs.htm

After next week, it will be at

http://www.daltai.com/proverbs/weeks/week93.htm

Aonghus, I believe the book you referenced is "Seanfhocail na Mumhan" not "Seanfhocla na Mumhan." Isn't "Seanfhocail" the caighdéan and Munster plural of "seanfhocal" while "seanfhocla" is the Cois Fhairrage plural?

Lúcas

Lúcas

Since I don't have the book at my elbow I'm not sure, but I fear you have caught me being careless again. Since I only speak the language I won't venture an opinion on where my grammatical carelessness originates! (I was born and grew up speaking Irish in Dublin)

Re: Is glas iad na cnoic i bhfad uainn

And thank you, Lúcas, for the discussion. BTW, Aonghus & Lúcas, "uainn" makes better sense than "duinn", but a grammatical question: how does "i" fit in "cnoic i bhfad"? Is this an idiomatic expression?