Blag Nua Gaeilge

(seo tús don scéal sci-fi a thosaigh mé ag scríobh deich mbliana ó shin; ar an drochuair d'éirigh mé as nuair a chrom mé ar An tSlaivéin...

This is my old translation of the introductory chapter of Dostoyevsky’s  Dead House , in a more standardized form. Aon duine a dhéanfas crío...

Page 6 contd: ag ól dí : just pointing out that in Irish, "drinking a drink" sounds just fine, because the word for the act of dri...

Page 6: San am sin is ea a chónaigh Diarmaid Ó Donnabháin Rosach sa Sciobairín : The verb  cónaigh!/cónaí  when used like this can me...

Page 5: ionad coinne  is "meeting place". ag faire ar an stíméir  "keeping eye for the steamer", and indeed here ...

Page 4:  Lá 'le  [=  Fhéile ]  Bríde, leath bídh agus leath tine . Note that  bia  has even in this dialect the genitive form  bídh . S...