Does anyone know where i can get the Irish words for "Be thou my vision". I would like to learn it in Gaeilge to sing in my church. I am also interested in some of the other classic Irish hymns.

Any thought?
Faber MacMhaolain

Dia duit a Fhaber.

Tá dalladh ábhair faoi ar Ghúgal - there's a fair whack of stuff on Google for you to spend some time delving into. Is mór ag daoine an t-iomann seo, is cosúil. Níl anseo ach blaisín de.

http://www.ucc.ie/celt/online/G400018/

http://www.daltai.com/discus/messages/13510/15182.html?1137615673

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7hiEWc1F-8

muire:

Go raibh maith agat! I tried quite often on google, but it's been a bit of a needle in a haystack. I really appreciate you helping me. Grammar question. Why did you put an "h" before the a in my name? I'm new to gaeilge and don't know all the rules yet. Faber has a 'long A" like the word "hay". Thanks for the encouragement.

Later,
Fhaber?

Irish has a vocative case, which you use when you "call" someone.

Smac_muiri's name is Seosamh. When talking about him in Irish you would use Seosamh, but when calling to him, as you do in a greeting, his name becomes a Sheosaimh adding a vocative particle a, leniting the first consonant, and making the last consonant slender. Similarly, Breandán becomes a Bhreandáin.

For female names (and foreign names) only the lenition occurs, not the final slenderization. Siobhán becomes a Shiobhán.

At the end of a letter, you are only stating who you are, not calling to yourself, so you wouldn't use the vocative there.

Bhreandain! (in the vocative)

Unless I am schizophrenic and calling out to my inner self then I suppose I must use the "h". Go raibh maith agat, my scholastic friend.

Faber

Ps: If I remember we used the vocative very little in Latin. Only in such things as "Oh muse! Tell us a tell" ,etc.