Please translate for me? Thank you in advance!

Person 1: a sheargánach a pháidín ó
Person 2: ag bainis a bhí i gceist agam ...

Person 1 is talking to someone named Páidín. They are calling him "seargánach" but I have no idea what that means.

I think Person 2 is saying "at a wedding is what I mean" but it could also be something like "getting married is what I had in mind."

These are just fragments of a conversation, and it's hard to translate without seeing full sentences.

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Táim ag foghlaim fós. Fáilte roimh gach aon cheartúchán.

'seargánach' means 'spoil-sport'

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Ah, that's why I didn't know the word. Nobody would ever think of saying that to me.

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Táim ag foghlaim fós. Fáilte roimh gach aon cheartúchán.

Why, too polite? Please share the names you are called with the rest of us!!

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Looks like a right mess.


If they are, I think it should be "A Sheargánaigh !" "(You) Spoil-sport/Kill-joy/Party-pooper!"


I read it as the former, but I don't think it can mean the latter, can it? Even so, I think ar bainis is more usual.


Agreed. We need more context from the preceding story.

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Múinteoir Gaeilge - Irish Teacher
My "specialty" is Connemara Irish, particularly Cois Fhairrge dialect, but I can also speak Ulster and Munster Irish with native-level pronunciation.
Is fearr Gaeilge ḃriste ná Béarla cliste, cinnte, aċ i ḃfad níos fearr aríst í Gaeilge ḃinn ḃeo na nGaeltaċtaí.
Gaeilge Chonnacht (GC), go háraid Gaeilge Chois Fhairrge (GCF), Gaeilic Uladh (GU), Gaelainn na Mumhan (GM), agus Gaeilge an Chaighdeáin Oifigiúil (CO).

More polite than some, it would seem.


I don't think bainis is used as a verbal noun, but I threw it out there because I wasn't sure.

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Táim ag foghlaim fós. Fáilte roimh gach aon cheartúchán.

I also think it should be: "a sheargánaigh" and "ar bainis"

I would interpret "bainis" as the after wedding party, no?

It looks like something from a song- the use of "ó" from person 1.

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Please wait for corrections/ more input from other forum members before acting on advice

Thanks for trying to help me out. The reason there isn't more context is because there wasn't anything else said. Essentially, (on a different board) I asked for the Gaelic spelling to the phonetics of something my husband and I said at our wedding and Person 2 was helping me when Person 1 posted "a sheargánach a pháidín ó" and that was all. And then Person 2 responded to them "ag bainis a bhí i gceist agam ..."

So it was basically an English conversation I was having with someone and someone else came in and said something in Gaelic, the other person responded and that was it. No one bothered to tell me what they were saying or what it was about. Maybe it was unrelated to me, I don't know. I really wanted to know what it was about.

Hi, I found the thread in question:

http://www.irishgaelictranslator.com/tr ... 55611.html

A pháidín (vocative of diminutive of "Pat") refers to pfolan (= Pat Folan).

Caff was chastising pfolan for the correction he wrote, perhaps implying he was a lonely old man (?). pfolan was embarrassed and replied "I meant at a wedding."

In any case, it was idle banter between the two of them and not aimed at or about you personally, so no need to be too concerned about it.

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Múinteoir Gaeilge - Irish Teacher
My "specialty" is Connemara Irish, particularly Cois Fhairrge dialect, but I can also speak Ulster and Munster Irish with native-level pronunciation.
Is fearr Gaeilge ḃriste ná Béarla cliste, cinnte, aċ i ḃfad níos fearr aríst í Gaeilge ḃinn ḃeo na nGaeltaċtaí.
Gaeilge Chonnacht (GC), go háraid Gaeilge Chois Fhairrge (GCF), Gaeilic Uladh (GU), Gaelainn na Mumhan (GM), agus Gaeilge an Chaighdeáin Oifigiúil (CO).