Well, the official term is abhac dearg, but I don't think they'd use it much in the Gaeltacht. Like me, they'd probably have visions of little men with red suits or red skin†.


(†Using abhacréalta dearg would help avoid this confusion.)

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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).

Wha'ts poetic about it?

Can't slip anything by you all, eagle eye linguistical-ninjas! I think I've fixed my Sig





Bachall na Réalt just sounds more poetic in my head space Raxis...and that's the only place poetry really matters ...and definitely more poetic than my Cosmic Cane; unless the story is set in a nursing home...Ooooh is it?

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Níl mórán Gaeilge agam (fós). Is foghlaimeoir mé...agus is breá liom é!

Is fearr Gaeilge bhriste, ná Béarla cliste.

Much better.


As Seán said, it is just a feeling. Possibly the "older" feel of the genitive plural when it reverts to the singular instead of having an appended plural suffix.

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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).