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Tenalach and the Wild Geese: "Celtic" Mythbusting
Featured image: A popular (and highly inaccurate) Facebook meme misrepresenting the Old Irish word āTenalach.ā Are you ready, kids? (Aye aye, Captain!).I canāt hear you! (Aye aye, Captain!) No, itās not time for Sponge Bob Squarepants! (sorry if I got your hopes up!). Itās time for an episode of one of my favorite pastimes: āLetās Debunk the āCeltic-yā Myth!ā A reluctant authority When youā¦
Rocky Mountain "Haigh" 2: Butte, Revisited
Featured image: Montanaās trademark big sky along the Montana Copperway Trail, Butte COVID changed everything. Well, at least it seems that way. Standing here at the crossroads of āThe New Normalā and āWill Things Ever Be The Same?;ā casually masking up to go into a crowded store or to let a worker enter the house, and counting the antigen tests in the medicine cabinet, sometimes it seems thatā¦
Paddy, not Patty
The big day is coming. Are you ready? The big day is coming ā the day when people all over the world celebrate everything Irish. If youāre like me, you probably already know what youāre going to be wearing, where youāre going to be celebrating, and who (and what!) youāre going to be celebrating with. Youāve laid in a supply of Guinness (or ā gack! ā green beer!), and the craic is ready to startā¦
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The Saint and the Shamrock
Itās almost St. Patrickās Day! Just about three weeks to go! Grocery stores, drug stores, and big box stores are awash with every imaginable shade of green now that Valentineās Day pink has faded away, and products ranging from greeting cards to green ravioli vie for shoppersā attention.As I mentioned in my post of February 28, 2024, Rising Roads and Other Rants andĀ Ramblings, this is also theā¦
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Rising Roads and Other Rants and Ramblings
March 17 is almost upon us! St. Patrickās Day is wildly popular here in the U.S. (we love an excuse to party!) and, by mid-February, you can hardly walk through a supermarket or drug store without being nearly smothered in green glitter. In fact, just about anything that can conceivably be tinted gets the green treatment ā from bagels to beer, and even rivers and fountains. Even now, just a fewā¦
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A Little Piece of...Oh Hell No!
For an American Irish speaker, itās fun, and rather exciting, to find Irish in unexpected places. Well, usually.āAt least at first.It can crop up in all kinds of places ā novels, jewelry, songs, TV shows and moviesā¦even tattoos. Sometimes itās even spelled right (or, in the case of a movie or a song, pronounced correctly) and says exactly what it purports to say. Sometimes.Often, though, theā¦
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SlƔn, a 2020
The year 2020 has been a rough one for all of us. Some of us have lost loved ones (more than 300,000 in the U.S. alone have died from COVID-19 as of this writing). Some have lost their own health. Many have lost their livelihoods or their homes. Most of us have had to cancel cherished and long-anticipated plans. Weāve all had to adapt to a ānew normal,ā and many of us have learned that people weā¦
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(The) Rest in Peace
(The) Rest inĀ Peace
Of all the translation travesties out there, bad translations on tombstones and memorial markers make me the saddest. Someone wanted to honor a loved one or a respected individual with this ingraving, didnāt do adequate research, and now their heartfelt sentiment is a laughing stock on the Internet.
The really sad thing is that this particular translation travesty is all OVER the Internet(notā¦
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Welcome to the World of Welsh!
Welcome to the World ofĀ Welsh!
(Grumble grumbleā¦this is my first time using the new WordPress editor, and Iām not a fan. Come on, WordPress! If it aināt broke, donāt fix it!)
Ahemā¦That said, I have a very happy announcement to make: The Celtic Tattoo Handbook series has a new member! Hereās a big Irish fĆ”ilte to the much-anticipated Welsh Tattoo Handbook, the ultimate āthink before you inkā guide to using the Welsh languageā¦
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Live, Love, Huh?!
This language isn't a toy for you to use to make yourself feel "special" or "unique."
Haigh, a chairde!
Iāve been racking my brains lately, trying to thing of something to write about after six months of COVID hiatus. Adjusting to working from homeĀ (yes, I have a day job), and dealing with the stress, worry, and day-to-day concerns really took their toll on the creative process.
Then, two days ago, I opened up Facebook and there, right in front of me, was this gem of a bad Irishā¦
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LƔ 'le PƔdraig Sona Daoibh!
LĆ” āle PĆ”draig Sona Daoibh!
A chairde,
Itās a crazy, different time in which we find ourselves! Thereās nothing at all normal about this St. Patrickās Day.
I donāt know how things are where you are, but Iām guessing not too different from where I am. Lock down. Pubs closed. Parades and masses canceled. Future events in doubt. Maybe youāre sitting home, as I am, wondering if youāll even have a job a few weeks from now.
Butā¦
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St. Patrick's Day and being Irish in the time of COVID-19
St. Patrickās Day and being Irish in the time of COVID-19
So, a chairde, this is not the post I thought I would be sharing today.
For the past several weeks Iāve been working on a post on what it means to say āIām Irish.ā Itās something several friends on both sides of the question have asked me to address ā why it is that Irish-Americans insist on referring to themselves as āIrish.ā
Itās something that really bothers some people, and a culture clashā¦
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March Madness
Ah, spring! Flowers are blooming, birds are singing, St. Patrickās Day is right around the corner, and ridiculously bad Irish T-shirts, memes, and posters are cropping up everywhere.
Iām not talking about the offensive, racist stuff one sees at this time of year, though thereās certainly plenty of that (Repeating for those in the back of the class: Things that portray Irish people as drunks, asā¦
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"I am," or Copulating in Irish
āI am,ā or Copulating inĀ Irish
Ha haā¦made you look!
If youāre new to Irish, you may be wondering ifĀ The Geeky GaeilgeoirĀ has been hacked by a porn site (Donāt worry. It hasnāt). If youāve been studying Irish for a while, youāre most likely either giggling or rolling your eyes (itās an old, old joke).
This post is not X-rated, or even R-rated (though some of the language Iāve heard from people trying to sort out this subjectā¦
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The Modest Preposition
A while back, I wrote a Facebook post lamenting the loss of the preposition āfromā in the phrase āto graduate from college.ā Apparently, in increasingly common usage, one no longer graduates from college, oneĀ āgraduates college.ā (There are lots of reasons why this oddly truncated phrase doesnāt work, which Iāll let Grammar Girl describe in detail. To me itās like fingernails on a chalkboard.).
Tā¦
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Oh, What an Idiom!
Oh, What anĀ Idiom!
Definition ofĀ idiom (Thank you, Webster!)
1:Ā an expression in the usage of a language that is peculiar to itself, either grammatically (such asĀ no, it wasnāt me) or in having a meaning that cannot beĀ derivedĀ from theĀ conjoinedĀ meanings of its elements (such asĀ ride herd onĀ for āsuperviseā).
2a:Ā the language peculiar to a people or to a district, community, or classĀ :DIALECT
b:Ā theĀ syntaā¦
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A Cautionary Tale, or What to Buy Your Celtic-Loving Loved Ones for Christmas
A Cautionary Tale, or What to Buy Your Celtic-Loving Loved Ones forĀ Christmas
Once Upon a Timeā¦
Once upon a time, a young man decided to honor his heritage by getting a tattoo in the language of his peopleā¦
Alas, he put his faith in the internet and the results were, shall we say, less than optimal.
I really wish this were a fairy tale!
Truth in Advertising
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