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    BBC News - Northern Ireland's place names' mixed linguistic heritage

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  2. 25. sij

    MUINE 'bushes' MEIRDRECH MUINI 'a bush-strumpet (!)' MAC MUINI 'a child conceived in the bushes'

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    The Book of Ballymote can do it all 😉

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  4. 24. sij

    IDATH, IDADH, IDATH, FIDAT, FIDAD, FIDHOUT All spellings of the early Irish word for the wild cherry tree

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  5. 24. sij

    MNÁ GÁOITHE ‘women of the wind ?’ Explained as ‘women who steal or destroy without anyone knowing’ (‘mná do ní gadaigheacht no millteanas gan fios’)

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    24. sij

    Getting out the good old compact edition of DIL while is down sure makes me think back to when we had to lug these to class for tests (along with dear old Thurneysen, of course)!

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  7. 23. sij

    By way of explaining eDIL's absence from the Twittersphere recently... The website may be down just now but the 'Supplement to eDIL2019' should be up very soon. Explaining the changes that went live last year. Hopefully will be useful to some of you. Looks like this ⬇️💥

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    A long time ago in a county not so far away ...

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  9. 9. sij

    If you want to catch the 'Bogland and Blackberries' event, which we're contributing to as part of the Northern Ireland Science Festival, snap up a ticket now!

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  10. 8. sij

    Still like the idea of calling someone a ‘boiled cow’s udder‘ 😆 Early Irish Insults revisited...

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    8. sij

    An dóigh leat gur cheart na focail tó agus nathó a chur i gcúrsaíocht sa Ghaeilge arís? Tó - ; náthó - .

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  12. 6. sij

    Local cures... "if a child got the Crease Collar the mother would get the gander to put his beak in the child's mouth and breathe into the mouth"!

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  13. 6. sij

    In an Irish text of the 9th or 10th century the phrase OIRET ANÁLA GEÓIDH is used to mean ‘a very small quantity’ The literal meaning is ‘the amount of a goose’s breath’!

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  14. 6. sij

    Fantastic to see 's first Poet In Residence, Catherine Ann Cullen mentioning ‘A History of Ireland in 100 Words’ in a recent interview for . Many thanks! Hope you found something of interest in there!

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  15. 5. sij

    Caesarean births are mentioned in medieval Irish literature Furbaide Fer Benn, for example, was said to have been 'cut from his mother's womb (a theascad dorinnedh a broinn a máthar)

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  16. 4. sij

    To determine the gender of a unborn child… Add 2 or 3 drops of blood from the right side of the woman's head to water from a well If the blood sinks, it’s a boy; if it floats, it’s a girl! RIA MS 23 F 19, fol. 89v

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  17. 3. sij

    BODACH is generally 'an old man' in Scottish Gaelic; also 'a small person' in Scots; and often 'a lout' in Irish. All, of course, go back to early BOT 'a penis'!

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    10 medieval Irish words we didn’t know about before now: From útluighe to slinnénacht, the rediscovered words show the quirky & colourful language of medieval Irish. By Sharon Arbuthnot

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  19. 29. pro 2019.

    CNÚ FRANGCACH ‘French nut’ = walnut CNÚ GOÍDELACH ‘Irish nut’ = hazelnut CNÚ CÁECH ‘blind nut’ = nut without a kernel

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  20. 26. pro 2019.

    If you’re within travelling-distance of Bellaghy, it would be great to see you on Wednesday, 19 February, where I’ll be joining and others for 'Bogland & Blackberries' - a look at the linguistic territory of Heaney's poems

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