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The Daltaí Boards » Archive: 2005- » 2009 (May-June) » Archive through May 01, 2009 » Presente! « Previous Next »

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Sconway
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Post Number: 1
Registered: 08-2008
Posted on Tuesday, April 21, 2009 - 11:13 pm:   Small TextLarge TextEdit Post Print Post

In Spanish, to remember a loved one passed on, a group will gather and one of the group will intone the name of the loved one. The rest of the group will respond "Presente!," meaning "here" or "present" as in a role call. What would the same word in Irish be?

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Seán_Óg
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Post Number: 2
Registered: 04-2009
Posted on Wednesday, April 22, 2009 - 12:44 am:   Small TextLarge TextEdit Post Print Post

anseo = here

Tá mé anseo = i am here

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Taidhgín
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Post Number: 270
Registered: 07-2006
Posted on Wednesday, April 22, 2009 - 05:02 pm:   Small TextLarge TextEdit Post Print Post

Strangely while "as láthair" was always used for "absent" the corresponding "i láthair" was never used. "Anseo" rang out in every classroom throughout Ireland every day in every classroom until ...

Now that I think of it perhaps it didn't. Only in the schools I attended which were "Gaelscoileanna" run by Na Bráithre Críostaí and everyone spoke Irish. Down the road was the rival school run by the Jesuits who were probably too intellectual to be carried away by devotion to Irish.

And now I'm thinking how unfair that last sentence is considering all the dedicated Íosánaigh such as an tAthair Ó Laoire (Laoghaire) and others. ... Hey! We were rivals. Jealous of the wealth and privilege of the fee-paying school that didn't bother much with Irish.

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Conchubhar1
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Post Number: 53
Registered: 03-2009
Posted on Wednesday, April 22, 2009 - 07:22 pm:   Small TextLarge TextEdit Post Print Post

anseo

simply without the pointless ranting on

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Taidhgín
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Post Number: 271
Registered: 07-2006
Posted on Wednesday, April 22, 2009 - 07:55 pm:   Small TextLarge TextEdit Post Print Post

Agus gurb amhlaidh dhuit, a chara. "Ranting?"

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Conchubhar1
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Post Number: 55
Registered: 03-2009
Posted on Thursday, April 23, 2009 - 07:28 am:   Small TextLarge TextEdit Post Print Post

your rant about fee paying schools and irish
and the decline of irish i can only guess as you trailed off......



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