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Sconway
Member Username: Sconway
Post Number: 1 Registered: 08-2008
| Posted on Tuesday, April 21, 2009 - 11:13 pm: |
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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? (Message edited by sconway on April 21, 2009) |
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Seán_Óg
Member Username: Seán_Óg
Post Number: 2 Registered: 04-2009
| Posted on Wednesday, April 22, 2009 - 12:44 am: |
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anseo = here Tá mé anseo = i am here |
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Taidhgín
Member Username: Taidhgín
Post Number: 270 Registered: 07-2006
| Posted on Wednesday, April 22, 2009 - 05:02 pm: |
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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
Member Username: Conchubhar1
Post Number: 53 Registered: 03-2009
| Posted on Wednesday, April 22, 2009 - 07:22 pm: |
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anseo simply without the pointless ranting on |
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Taidhgín
Member Username: Taidhgín
Post Number: 271 Registered: 07-2006
| Posted on Wednesday, April 22, 2009 - 07:55 pm: |
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Agus gurb amhlaidh dhuit, a chara. "Ranting?" |
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Conchubhar1
Member Username: Conchubhar1
Post Number: 55 Registered: 03-2009
| Posted on Thursday, April 23, 2009 - 07:28 am: |
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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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