So someone from the registrar's office called me and she said "there's a problem with your surname, I googled the Irish and the English together and nothing came up." After I picked my jaw up off the floor I realised she had used Google Translate :/
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I actually need someone to make me a gif of Jesus Wept for moments like this
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At one point someone in the Registrar's office said I should get a PPS card because it would have my name and address so I could get a marriage licence (cc
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So this went on for a while until I got to speak to the actual head Registrar eventually. I said look, I can't produce the thing you want me to and I do not understand the difficulty with this at all, here are my documents and if my name was in English there wouldn't be an issue
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I was actually AR BUILE over this and was fully ready to **cough** seek legal advice
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But then I dropped in conversation about my background being in law and it magically got resolved at top speed. Shocker.
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So now I'll get hitched next week and my name will be in Irish and it'll be grand but the hassle was really stressful and entirely unnecessary
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I must change all my documents to Gaeilge, but that's beside the point.The fact is, a person from the State's registrar body phoned me and asked me to acquire a new form of document because when she used google translate she couldn't figure out why the Irish name looked different
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Obviously this is not the most egregious of things to happen to someone with an Irish name but like, it's poxy and it shouldn't be happening. It's not that hard to have some basic respect for the language.
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This week I heard a civil servant talk about the panic that descends on their workplace when someone wearing a fáinne walks in. Unreal stuff. Not a bit of meas at all.
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I got married in Vegas at a drive-thru wedding chapel, the little white one. So cheap, very fast, walked there... Did the proper wedding later, less paperwork! Congrats agus mathú libhse!
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