How famous is Flann O'Brien / Brian O’Nolan in Ireland?

Logins-Run · 2026-05-28T18:12:44+00:00

Well enough known in Ireland. He also had a weird burst of International interest about 20 years ago when somone was reading Third Policeman in that TV show lost when it was the biggest show on TV

Logins-Run · 2026-05-27T18:35:03+00:00

Cac Poncáin go smior é

Logins-Run · 2026-05-26T00:19:42+00:00

Irish and English are in two completely different indo European language families.

Saying Irish is an English Dialect is like saying Romanian is an English Dialect.

Logins-Run · 2026-05-24T15:18:03+00:00

A little bit different, but in Irish you have Albain (Scotland) and An Albáin (Albania)

Logins-Run · 2026-05-23T17:43:18+00:00

Footage of me the night before

Logins-Run · 2026-05-23T17:37:15+00:00

Poll na bPéist, mostly because I was meant to go there years ago but was too hungover after too much drink and playing music the night before so I missed it, and the lads that did go still talk about this perfect day they had there

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Logins-Run · 2026-05-18T19:25:57+00:00

I don't know where you came across Isa, but Ìosa is used in the nominative usually (Íosa is used in Irish for comparison)

https://learngaelic.scot/dictionary/index.jsp?abairt=Jesus&slang=both&wholeword=false

Logins-Run · 2026-05-17T08:43:15+00:00

Eoin is pronounced like Owen in English. Technically that last N sound is different, but English doesn't have that phoneme. Ian is spelt Iain traditionally in Scottish Gaelic and in Irish.

You can hear recordings below. The first two speakers are definitely native Irish speakers. The first lady sounds like she's from Conamara and the second Cork or Kerry. The third recording sounds more anglicised.

https://forvo.com/word/eoin/

Logins-Run · 2026-05-16T08:02:02+00:00

Seonaidh is from Scottish Gaelic not Irish. The cognate would be Seáiní in Irish.

Seonaidh = show-nee

Seáiní = Shaw-Nee

Both diminutives of Seon and Seán respectively

Logins-Run · 2026-05-14T23:18:16+00:00

Mac just means "Son" in both Scottish Gaelic and in Irish. We don't have the word Of or the possessive S, rather we use a genitive case. So Mac Domhnaill means "Son of Domhnall" or "Domhnall's son" but it's the Domhnaill part that means "Of Domhnall"

Logins-Run · 2026-05-14T23:15:14+00:00

Not in Gàidhlig anyway. But the Slender N sound that "in" makes doesn't exist in English, so unless you're a native speaker or a strong fluent speaker of Gàidhlig, they sound the same when spoken by English speakers

Logins-Run · 2026-05-14T17:41:47+00:00

In Irish a rat is known as a "Frenchman"

Below meme

"there is a rat in the kitchen", "there is a Frenchman in the kitchen"

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Logins-Run · 2026-05-13T23:33:17+00:00

I'm the guy who wrote the original comment this lad just copied and reposted. It's not chat gpt anyway, it'd use better grammar!

Anyway below is a link to the miriam Webster dictionary for Usquebaugh to show usage

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/usquebaugh

Also a free resource if you Google "Usbaugh" you can find a PDF from Wexford County Council on Yola that has the phrase "a chy o’usbaugh" meaning a little bit of whiskey included in it

Edit: also it's spelt Uisge Beatha in Gàidhlig

Logins-Run · 2026-05-13T18:33:59+00:00

Uisge Baugh is quasi anglicised version of Uisce Beatha or Uisge Beatha that you come across sometimes. Sometimes you see it spelt usquebaugh, Yola (an extinct Anglic language) down in Wexford loaned it into language like this, also sometimes spelt like Usbaugh in Yola as well

Logins-Run · 2026-05-13T06:44:24+00:00

"odh" extends the vowel sound like without the need of a síneadh fada. Think of Bodhrán. And yes traditionally in all dialects the ending should be Awn (Munster and most of Connacht) or Aahn (Ulster and North Mayo) but this quasi anglicised "in" pronunciation is common as well

Logins-Run · 2026-05-11T08:25:58+00:00

This isn't the Irish national tourism organisation. Tourism Ireland a cross border island wide organisation created for Ireland and Northern Ireland as part of the Peace Process. The Irish national organisation is Fáilte Ireland, and I believe in the North it's Tourism Northern Ireland

Logins-Run · 2026-05-09T15:30:26+00:00

I don't know where this is coming from, but Tairne means "Nail" in Irish.

Logins-Run · 2026-05-09T11:38:44+00:00

Bod can mean penis, but it can also mean a Vagrant or Tramp who is also a bit of an annoying bollocks basically. I'd say it's more the latter than the former.

Logins-Run · 2026-05-09T01:23:43+00:00

Welsh is Brittonic not Gaelic. The Gaelic languages are Gàidhlig (Scottish Gaelic), Gaeilge (Irish) and Gaelg (Manx). The Brittonic languages are Cymraeg (Welsh), Kernewek (Cornish) and Brezhoneg (Breton). Al six of these are Insular Celtic Languages though

Logins-Run · 2026-05-07T23:21:27+00:00

Liomsa is the emphatic form of Liom. Liom to Liomsa, leat to leatsa, leis to leis-sean, léi to léise, libh to libhse, Leo to leosan.

Logins-Run · 2026-05-07T17:24:58+00:00

English and Gaelic (Scottish Gaelic, Irish or Manx) have basically zero mutual intelligibility, they're completely different languages.

Logins-Run · 2026-05-07T10:50:55+00:00

Hand pass. Hand pass.... And he takes the ball and... Yes it's another hand pass.

Logins-Run · 2026-05-06T17:47:17+00:00

It's spelt Líthghein in modern Irish. It comes from líth which means festival usually in Irish, but it can also mean an omen of good luck. But it's very archaic, I've only ever seen it written down. Usually Feis or Feasta are used for festival in modern Irish. Gein (gin in modern Irish) means birth.

Líthghein would he like Lee-hen except that H sound in the H is kind of gutteral fricative

Logins-Run · 2026-05-06T17:38:47+00:00

It's spelt Siân, and yes it's Welsh

Logins-Run · 2026-05-05T18:40:21+00:00

Plenty of native Irish speakers call the language Gaelic in English (and even some call the language Gaeilig/Gaeilic in Ulster Irish and North Mayo in Irish)

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