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Há 2 dias · This note reconsiders Myles na gCopaleen’s uses and abuses of Hiberno-English through some of the columnist’s favourite insults – such as thooleramawn, thullabawn, and gawshkogue. A master of both of Ireland’s ‘official’ languages, Myles had a unique relationship with the unofficial hybrid, which provided him with, among other things, a rich repertoire ...
Há 3 dias · Whatever about gaiscí having French roots, the Hiberno-English “gasún” (with its several variant spellings) almost certainly does, although when pronounced as it is in my native Northeast, I ...
Há 5 dias · Because according to Terry Dolan’s Hiberno-English Dictionary, the word gaiscí means “one who performs great deeds, but [is] normally used sarcastically”. For sample usage,...
Há 1 dia · t. e. The Anglo-Saxons were a cultural group that inhabited much of what is now England in the Early Middle Ages, and spoke Old English. They traced their origins to Germanic settlers who came to Britain from mainland Europe in the 5th century.
Há 1 dia · cycling. If, like me, you love to cycle you might say Is breá liom a bheith ag rothaíocht /Iss braw lyum a veh egg ruh-hee-ukth/. This translates, true to the idiom of Hiberno-English, as “ I love to be cycling. Your bike chain delivers your pedal power to the sprocket and thence to the wheels. The Irish for bicycle chain is slabhra rothair ...
Há 5 dias · Yet, the letters, in the many varied examples used, can also be characterised by their variety of obviously Irish idiosyncrasies, including Hiberno-English phraseology and the frequent deployment of Catholic rhetoric.
Há 3 dias · Irish people. Irish Travellers ( Irish: an lucht siúil, meaning the walking people ), also known as Pavees or Mincéirs [3] ( Shelta: Mincéirí ), [4] are a traditionally peripatetic indigenous [5] ethno-cultural group originating in Ireland. [6] [7] [8] They are predominantly English-speaking, though many also speak Shelta, a language of ...
