Eimear Ní M

Eimear Ní M @airneog.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 12:24 UTC

Tá siad ag teacht go hÉireann leis na martra i mí Deireadh Fómhair

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Eimear Ní M @airneog.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 10:32 UTC

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Eimear Ní M @airneog.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 10:21 UTC

Sa dara leathanach thuas tá an píosa seo a bhí curtha ar Twitter tráth ag @davidstifter.bsky.social

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Eimear Ní M @airneog.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 10:02 UTC

Tá, caithfidh mé na leathanaigh sin a aimsiú ann

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Eimear Ní M @airneog.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 09:51 UTC

Inniu chonaic mé cuid de Ghluaiseanna Würzburg 🤩

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Eimear Ní M @airneog.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 17:10 UTC

Sin é díreach. Bíonn chuile rud acu, idir mórpharáid cathartha, taispeántas tinte ealaíne, aonach siamsaíochta, mórshiúil leis na hiarsmae (3 cloigne), Hochamt, Festzelt …

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Eimear Ní M @airneog.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 14:56 UTC

Táimse sa Ghearmáin freisin

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Eimear Ní M @airneog.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 16:41 UTC

I have enjoyed your LOTR posts tremendously

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Eimear Ní M @airneog.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 16:36 UTC

Actual canon: “each of the Dúnedain carried … a small phial of cordial and wafers of a waybread that would sustain life in him for many days - not indeed the miruvor or the lembas of the Eldar, but like them, for the medicine and other arts of Númenor were potent and not yet forgotten. “

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Eimear Ní M @airneog.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 13:58 UTC

The equivalent of WWII amphetamines for pilots

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Eimear Ní M @airneog.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 27, 2024 at 22:01 UTC

My own 19th & early 20th C ancestors, by any measure poor peasants, had a flourishing culture of songs and storytelling. Medieval people should have had something like that (tho folk culture in post 1600 Ireland was greatly enriched by absorbing the bardic tradition after the fall of Gaelic chiefs)

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Eimear Ní M @airneog.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 27, 2024 at 20:34 UTC

I suspect Miles Cameron’s fantasy is a lot closer to what it was like (but then, he’s historical fiction writer Christian Cameron not-really-in-disguise). The centrality of belief and of oaths stand out.

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Eimear Ní M @airneog.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 24, 2024 at 15:28 UTC

Michelle West’s Sun Sword series and linked House War series - very different cosmology but has the same kind of stakes, and layers of detailed world building inc. ancient backstory that we see in glimpses.

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Eimear Ní M @airneog.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 24, 2024 at 14:33 UTC

I’m in Ireland - the problem was the … old duck billed enemy. Didn’t get as far as next bit as had to stop

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Eimear Ní M @airneog.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 24, 2024 at 12:53 UTC

Not sure my GP has whatever it is

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Eimear Ní M @airneog.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 23, 2024 at 11:37 UTC

🤣
The classical comparison made me think of Úrchill an Creagán but from the corpus there are TONS of songs with the classical comparisons, poets showing off their learning.
Also reminded that I should buy myself a copy of this which seems to be back in print cic.ie/shop/leabhai...

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Eimear Ní M @airneog.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 23, 2024 at 11:29 UTC

It’s great because it bridges the gap between late dil and resources with modern spelling

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Eimear Ní M @airneog.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 23, 2024 at 11:27 UTC

Or could be cumasach, capable, with dréimireach having a more metaphorical meaning of striving Capable and ever striving mistress of household skills

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Eimear Ní M @airneog.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 23, 2024 at 11:22 UTC

Searching Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla (Ó Dónaill) for the last line Dréimireach = ladder-like OR wavy if of hair Camarsach = wavy (sensing a theme here) Banachas = housewifery and presumably toughlach is teaghlach, home, household Wavy haired super housekeeper? 🤔

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Eimear Ní M @airneog.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 23, 2024 at 11:12 UTC

A search for similar (in other songs) in corpas.ria.ie produces
“Fós Diana do threascair Actéon
'S gan dearmad ainnir an Chairn sa' tSléibhe”
So 1st line there must have “ainnir” and verb in 2nd must be an abbreviated “threascair”, vanquishes. Also found “daisibh”, seems to = a heap.
Knocked him!

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Eimear Ní M @airneog.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 20, 2024 at 15:43 UTC

I’m pretty sure they are, but just don’t say so on the packet. Look for a more “mainstream” brand like Roma (i.e. not premium imported Italian) and see if the packet instructions just refer to assembling the lasagne without cooking.

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Eimear Ní M @airneog.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 11, 2024 at 21:40 UTC

LinkedIn makes it absurdly easy to accidentally spam all your contacts from your phone in your pocket. I did it once when out for a Christmas walk. So whenever I get requests I first suspect something similar has happened

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Eimear Ní M @airneog.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 02, 2024 at 10:36 UTC

The same occurred to me. Also that Ireland was a great example of how the system that England had didn’t work and/ or wasn’t operated in the same way. (I could still tell you which one of the local landlords in my home area behaved decently during the Famine, waived rents and organised relief)

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Eimear Ní M @airneog.bsky.social [ View ] May 28, 2024 at 09:37 UTC

Ní dóigh liom é - tá Céad-aoin ann sa Ghaeilge ón 9ú aois (800í AD) ar a laghad. Ach tá neart focail eile ó na Normannaigh sa teanga - an t-ainm Seán (seachas Eoin), an focal seomra

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Eimear Ní M @airneog.bsky.social [ View ] May 28, 2024 at 07:39 UTC

And the very people who get the larger cuts are slavering to find a way to take away writers’ and actors’ cuts with AI

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Eimear Ní M @airneog.bsky.social [ View ] May 26, 2024 at 15:06 UTC

Garth Nix’ Old Kingdom books

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Eimear Ní M @airneog.bsky.social [ View ] May 18, 2024 at 09:04 UTC

If I understand the visual properly, it’s not correct for Manx which should flow from Irish and Scottish Gaelic not from Welsh and Breton.

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Eimear Ní M @airneog.bsky.social [ View ] May 12, 2024 at 21:10 UTC

I’m already a serial refugee from Usenet / Livejournal / blogs via Google Reader/ Twitter … not keen to move again. Facebook is for seeing pics of my cousins’ children and I never got much value out of Instagram.

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Eimear Ní M @airneog.bsky.social [ View ] May 12, 2024 at 20:55 UTC

Bheinn den tuairim gur SPF 40 a bheadh agat

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Eimear Ní M @airneog.bsky.social [ View ] May 09, 2024 at 12:02 UTC

Have never found the one I really wanted to read again. Name was something like the The Long Summer but not the Louise Fitzhugh book. US, brother and sister, a cousin comes to stay. The girl is always called Sis rather than her name (a bit like the vibe with the children in To Kill a Mockingbird).

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Eimear Ní M @airneog.bsky.social [ View ] May 08, 2024 at 13:48 UTC

I can think of at least one 20th C Felix, also pronounced like that, in my home place in Co. Cavan. It seems to have been an alternative anglicisation of Felim (usually made into Philip).

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Eimear Ní M @airneog.bsky.social [ View ] May 08, 2024 at 10:42 UTC

You can look up townlands alphabetically by county here www.townlands.ie/sligo/ - I looked through Sligo but I don’t see any better candidates that those already suggested.
The first element could also be Béal an ___ so in the anglicised lists I’d look at Bel- as well as Balli- and Bally-

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