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Suaimhneas
Member Username: Suaimhneas
Post Number: 131 Registered: 08-2006
| Posted on Monday, December 04, 2006 - 11:45 am: |
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I recently passed the new Hilton Hotel at Dublin Airport. The hotel's restaurant is called "sólás". Solas is a good name because, apparently, it's a "light-filled dining experience". Nice to see Irish being used in this way, but what a pity the logo designers had to throw in a couple of irrelevant fada's (to add to the "ethnicity"?) http://www.ebow.ie/design/hilton |
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Aonghus
Member Username: Aonghus
Post Number: 4305 Registered: 08-2004
| Posted on Monday, December 04, 2006 - 11:58 am: |
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sólás [ainmfhocal firinscneach den chéad díochlaonadh] compord, áthas, taitneamh. |
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Suaimhneas
Member Username: Suaimhneas
Post Number: 133 Registered: 08-2006
| Posted on Monday, December 04, 2006 - 12:10 pm: |
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Bhuel, nach mise an ignoramus! |
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Dennis
Member Username: Dennis
Post Number: 1997 Registered: 02-2005
| Posted on Monday, December 04, 2006 - 12:25 pm: |
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Tá bialann san óstán Lennox i mBostún a bhfuil an t-ainm céanna uirthi. Agus banna ceoil Gael-Mheiriceánach. (Níl a fhios agam an bhfuil siad ann fós.) Is maith an t-ainm é toisc nach bhfuil aon litreacha ann a chuirfeadh scanradh ar lucht an Bhéarla! Tá teach tábhairne anseo in Seattle a bhfuil Fadó mar ainm air. Ba dheacair praiseach a dhéanamh den fhuaimniú! Caminante no hay camino, se hace camino al andar.
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Suaimhneas
Member Username: Suaimhneas
Post Number: 136 Registered: 08-2006
| Posted on Monday, December 04, 2006 - 01:06 pm: |
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Bhí bialann Fadó i mBleá Cliath roint bhliain ó shin. Shíl cara Sasanach dom go raibh amhranaíocht Portaingéalach ar siúl ann |
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Diarmo
Member Username: Diarmo
Post Number: 219 Registered: 08-2004
| Posted on Tuesday, December 05, 2006 - 05:21 pm: |
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good old Paris! ;) with her Doogan ancestry! Must have been her contribution! |
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Diarmo
Member Username: Diarmo
Post Number: 220 Registered: 08-2004
| Posted on Tuesday, December 05, 2006 - 05:22 pm: |
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in Microsoft the restaurant is called An Bhialann! |
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Domhnall
Member Username: Domhnall
Post Number: 621 Registered: 06-2005
| Posted on Thursday, December 07, 2006 - 11:08 am: |
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The student restaurant in dcu is called An Bialann.. They also have a "cúinne na gaeilge" with fancy leather chairs.. Even though it's clearly signed Béarladóirí still sit there. A people without a language of its own is only half a nation.A nation should guard its language more than its territories, 'tis a surer barrier and a more important frontier than mountain or river
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Dennis
Member Username: Dennis
Post Number: 2016 Registered: 02-2005
| Posted on Thursday, December 07, 2006 - 11:10 am: |
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quote:is called An Bialann.. Tá súil le dia agam nach mar sin atá sé scríofa! Caminante no hay camino, se hace camino al andar.
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