# as-gaeilge - Sunday 23 June, 2019
The Brexit process should be a golden age for satirists and comedians, but unfortunately, something else has happened, writes Darach Ó Séaghdha.
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# as-gaeilge - Sunday 2 June, 2019
Did you know that Nigel Farage and Keanu Reeves were born in the same year? It’s hard enough to accept that they are the same species, writes Darach Ó Séaghdha.
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# as-gaeilge - Sunday 26 May, 2019
To translate the meaning of Bridezilla effectively we need to pop the bonnet of the word and look at the moving parts, writes Darach Ó Séaghdha.
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# as-gaeilge - Sunday 19 May, 2019
The word appears to originate before 1900 in parts of Ireland where spoken Irish was high and literacy was low, writes Darach Ó Séaghdha.
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# as-gaeilge - Sunday 12 May, 2019
Sometimes Béarla and Gaeilge are presented as being in conflict in Ireland, but they’re both part of our cultural heritage, writes Darach Ó Séaghdha.
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# as-gaeilge - Sunday 5 May, 2019
J. R. R. Tolkien once tried to learn Irish in Galway but he dismissed the language as suffering from “fundamental unreason,” writes Darach Ó Séaghdha.
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# as-gaeilge - Sunday 28 April, 2019
Thanks to Queen Bé, April 2019 has been an interesting month for accessorised letters, writes Darach Ó Séaghdha.
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# as-gaeilge - Sunday 21 April, 2019
‘Thousands of Irish people know their rights if they’re arrested in America but not if they’re arrested in Ireland… and nobody would know what mitosis was if it wasn’t for Sabrina,’ writes Darach Ó Séaghdha.
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# as-gaeilge - Sunday 14 April, 2019
Gaeilgeoirí often feel the odds are stacked against them. Even when we are right we still end up looking like a spoilsport or a pain in the arse, writes Darach Ó Séaghdha.
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# as-gaeilge - Sunday 7 April, 2019
The German R&B duo dominated the charts at the time and one of them even claimed to be the “new Elvis”, writes Darach Ó Séaghdha.
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# as-gaeilge - Sunday 31 March, 2019
Sure enough, one of the longest, best laid-out and most carefully edited pages in An Vicipéid is the page on Star Trek, writes Darach Ó Séaghdha.
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# as-gaeilge - Sunday 17 March, 2019
If you’re doing your Irish oral exam next week – you’ll need to know how to say ‘confidence and supply agreement’ and ‘frictionless border’, writes Darach Ó Séaghdha.
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# as-gaeilge - Friday 15 March, 2019
My daughter speaks mostly in English but there are also lots of words that she only knows the Irish for – so she mixes them in, writes Caoimhín De Barra.
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# as-gaeilge - Sunday 10 March, 2019
George Orwell said that history was a palimpsest – a chalkboard which could be scraped clean and reinscribed, exactly as often as necessary, writes Darach Ó Séaghdha.
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# as-gaeilge - Sunday 3 March, 2019
Satire (Áer) was taken as seriously as physical assault in old Ireland and a range of satirical offences were deemed to warrant compensation, including ‘coining a nickname that sticks’, writes Darach Ó Séaghdha.
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# as-gaeilge - Sunday 24 February, 2019
Did the knights of the Fianna use their frithbacáin (handbrake) to do doughnuts, and other boy racer tricks, in the medieval equivalent of an industrial estate? wonders Darach Ó Séaghdha.
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# as-gaeilge - Sunday 27 January, 2019
Aerach means gay in both the modern sense as well as the original meaning of happy and carefree writes Darach Ó Séaghdha.
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# as-gaeilge - Sunday 20 January, 2019
Different languages across the world look at the spectrum and make different calls on where certain colours begin and end, writes Darach Ó Séaghdha.
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# as-gaeilge - Sunday 13 January, 2019
With the United Kingdom set to leave the European Union this year, it’s time for Hiberno English to become the official language of the EU, writes Darach Ó Séaghdha.
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# as-gaeilge - Sunday 6 January, 2019
The fact that the Irish words for duck and lake sound similar gives an alliterative flourish to a seanfhocal about not sweating the small stuff: Ní troimide an loch an lacha – the lake is not heavier for having a duck on it, writes Darach Ó Séaghdha.
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# as-gaeilge - Monday 24 December, 2018
Hó hó hó! Darach Ó Séaghdha has a selection box of Irish words for Christmas.
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# as-gaeilge - Sunday 16 December, 2018
As one of the first human inventions fire is often used as a metaphor for human civilisation and its downsides, writes Darach Ó Séaghdha.
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# as-gaeilge - Sunday 9 December, 2018
Darach Ó Séaghdha has a typecast character for every letter in the alphabet – the funny one, the vulgar one, the one with notions or the one who sucks all the craic clean out of the room.
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# as-gaeilge - Sunday 2 December, 2018
Codladh Geimhridh literally means ‘winter sleep’ and is the Irish for hibernation. Sometimes that feels like a viable option in the Land of Eternal Winter (Hibernia), writes Darach Ó Séaghdha.
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# as-gaeilge - Sunday 18 November, 2018
Dogs took centre stage in Irish mythology, stories and proverbs, just like they dominate our social media feeds today, writes Darach Ó Séaghdha
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# as-gaeilge - Sunday 11 November, 2018
The Irish term for a jellyfish translates literally as seal snot. If this floats your boat you might also enjoy mathair shúigh – suckmother – for squid.
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# as-gaeilge - Sunday 30 September, 2018
Is V a cheeky stowaway in the Irish language? Darach Ó Séaghdha takes a look.
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# as-gaeilge - Friday 6 October, 2017
Happy National Potato Day, ya filthy animals.
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# as-gaeilge - Tuesday 1 August, 2017
# as-gaeilge - Saturday 18 March, 2017
# as-gaeilge - Tuesday 7 March, 2017
All you need to get through the year.
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# as-gaeilge - Saturday 24 December, 2016
FEAR SNEACHTA BÁN…
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# as-gaeilge - Sunday 13 November, 2016
Is smuigín thú! (You’re a snot-nosed brat. Yeah you.)
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# as-gaeilge - Wednesday 2 November, 2016
A combination we never thought we’d hear.
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# as-gaeilge - Friday 16 September, 2016
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# as-gaeilge - Sunday 17 July, 2016
In the name of the fada.
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# as-gaeilge - Wednesday 15 June, 2016
“And suddenly, a car hit me.”
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# as-gaeilge - Thursday 9 June, 2016
The salary starts at over €4300 a month.
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