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Dainín Dan Ó Sé ó Charrachán could this be Maidhc Dainín Ó Sé's father?
b'in deireadh le céasadh na muice 'that was the end of the pig's torment'
mamach 'mammal'
iothlainn 'haggard'
caoireoil 'mutton', from caora + feoil, thus it used to be spelt caoir-fheoil
led' dhriotháir, lack of DNTLS DTS rule, how the rule is often more flexible in native speech than in the Caighdeán
diaidh, can be pronounced /d´əug´/

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do dhein sé níos measa é 'it made it worse'
gal 'puff'
ospidéal, one of the few words that breaks the caol lé caol rule, the s is pronounced broad and the p slender
oscalaíos, expressing the epenthetic vowel
otharcharr 'ambulance'
ní raibh sé de mhisneach agam faic a lorg uirthi 'I wasn't brave enough to ask anything of her'
taispeáin dom garsún nó cailín óg ná deineann rud as an tslí uaireanta 'show me a young boy or girl who doesn't do something out of line occasionally'

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as an slí, without T-prefixation

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Cad atá ort pronounced cad tá ort
Cad a thug abhaile thú 'what brought you home'
siúinéir 'joiner'
go tobann normally go hobann in Munster, but tobann might be a sub-dialectal form
tréimhse 'semester'

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go rialta 'regularly'
sibhialta 'civil'
ghearradh sé suas ina gceathrúna beaga iad 'he would cut them into little quarters', more literally, 'he would cut them into their state of being little quarters'
aithne phearsanta 'a personal relasionship'
chomh sláintiúil le broc 'as healthy as a badger'
ina lán slite 'in many ways', Béarlachas. Peadar Ó Laoghaire translated 'in more ways than one' as ní har aon chuma amháin, so perhaps this (or even nách ar aon chuma amháin?) or another negative expression could be used to carry this meaning
chomh glan le scilling 'as clean as a shilling'
matán 'muscle'
arán seagail 'rye bread'
chun a cheart a thabhairt dó 'in his defense'?

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chomh sláintiúil le broc - in England, we say "as fit as a butcher's dog"

chun a cheart a thabhairt dó: to do right by him, to give him his due?

Interesting, I didn't know

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fearaibh originally the dative plural of fearbut now replaced the nominative plural among many, if not most speakers
féinmhuiníneach 'self-confidently'
éinne ná bhaineann triail as ní bhaineann sé faic 'the one who never tries never gets anything'
céilís Anglo-Irish plural of céilí

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cad a dh'imigh air 'what happened to him'
ispín 'sausages', not itself a diminunative, but treated as a fourth declension noun by analogy of nouns ending in the diminunative -ín, e.g. cailín
agus é ar nós a bheadh tarbh agus gach aon bhó sa ghort rite uaidh 'and he like a bull, with every cow ran away from him'
adhmadóireacht 'wood-working'
is fearr rith maith ná drochsheasamh 'good running is better than bad standing'

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is fearr rith maith ná drochsheasamh: this means 'discretion is the better part of valour'.