http://www.transcript-review.org/issue.cfm?issue_id=11&lan=en

Includes a few short pieces by Alant Titley, which is how I stumbled over it.

Léigh mé trí cinn de na húrscéalta a luaitear anseo (Five Excellent Books in Irish)

http://www.transcript-review.org/section.cfm?id=180&lan=en

ach níor chuala mé tada riamh faoin gceann eile, Torfinn. Ar léigh tú é?

(Message edited by dennis on December 01, 2006)

Léigh. Do ghasúr sna déaga luatha atá sé scríofa, agus is úrscéilín seachas úrscéal atá ann. Thaithin sé liom. Bunaithe ar cheann de sagas Orkneys ata sé, ach an tsuíomh aistrithe go BhÁC na lochlannach agus gael.

I read those stories by Alan Titley and I very much disliked them. Maybe they make more sense in Irish but I'm not so sure about them. I guess I thought that if Aonghus liked them then they must be good. Oh well.

Beir bua agus beannacht

quote:

Do ghasúr sna déaga luatha atá sé scríofa, agus is úrscéilín seachas úrscéal atá ann.

Go raibh maith agat. Ní rushálfaidh mé amach len é a cheannach mar sin. Léigh mé úrscéilín tanaí eile léi tamall ó shin, An Bhean Úd Thall. Bhí sé ceart go leor, ach ba leor ceann amháin.

quote:

I very much disliked them.

Ah well, de gustibus non disputandum est. = Beatha dhuine a thoil.

Shíl mé go raibh siad an-ghreannmhar. An bhfuil siad ar fáil i nGaeilge ar an idirlíon?

Ní fios dom.

And I didn't say I liked the stories! I prefer Alans columns. But he is a virtuoso word twister, which I enjoy. The stories are a bit bizarre.

(Message edited by aonghus on December 02, 2006)

Well then maybe I'd like his columns, as long as they make a little bit more sense :)

Beir bua agus beannacht

Ach ta siad as Gaeilge, A Riona, agus Gaeilge an-dheacair chomh maith

I've read several of Alan's columns as gaieilge in the Irish Times. I find them very challenging given the rusty state of my vocab and grammar, but well worth the effort. The convolutions and twists he puts on words would make you smile

A Shuaimhneas a chara,

I know that they are in Irish, I just meant that their content might be more pleasing than that of his little stories about eating ears and whiny mean females.

:)

Beir bua agus beannacht

I like whiny mean females myself, but I could never eat a whole one

An mbíonn gíog astu agus tú á n-ithe?

A Shuimhneais,
ongc (féach) ar do bhaigheo (bio), State/Province: "Cill Dara agus Corca Dhuibhne"; nach bhfuil an t-aon fhoirm contae i Laighin, agus an dara fhoirm plás i gCiarraí?

Tá suaimhneas ag bogadh idir an dá áit.


nach bhfuil an t-aon fhoirm contae i Laighin, agus an dara fhoirm plás i gCiarraí?

Nach contae i Laighin an chéad ceann, agus ceantar i gCiarraí an dara ceann?

Sea.

GRM, A Aonghuis.

Cheapaim go bhfuil sé cam, mar bhris sé 'clause structure na Gaeilge', ach níl eolas orm sa phrása sin a chur 'contae' agus 'plás' i dteanga gan 'alt éiginnte' (indefinite article)