Is mairg i dtír gur duine leis féinig é.

I can't quite make out what this means.

Have you the whole context?


It might mean "Woe is he who is in a country where he is a person on his own"

But without more context I'd be wary of being sure of that . I am pretty sure that there are words implied.

There is a similar phrase here:
http://www.ballingearyhs.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=260:ma ire-ni-criodain&catid=16:ballingeary-girls-1938&Itemid=21

quote:

Is mairg a bíonn i dtír gan duine leis féin.

Another variant:

62. Mairg do bhionn i dtir gan duine
aige féin.

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'Woe to him who is in a country where there
is none to take his part.' Var. Is mairg do
bhionn san tir ná haitheantar é, 'where he is
not known.' Sometimes with the rhyming addi-
tion : Mar la na brúine luigheann an bata
ar a thaobh,, ' for on the day of the fight the
cudgel is applied to his side.' Cf. " Vae soli,
quia cum ceciderit nou habet sublevantem s«,"
Eccl. iv. 10.

http://www.archive.org/stream/miscellanyofiris00orah/miscellanyofiris00orah_djvu .txt

Corrected with my best guess at the OCR errors

Ah, tuigim anois.

Go raibh maith agat, a Aonghuis!

Níl a bhuíochas ort. Ceann sách casta.