It's a stop consonant, don't worry!

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You mean Hiberno-English? The thing is we're talking about emmigrants here, and the question needs to be asked as to the influences of the family's English. The safest assumption would be mostly Hiberno-English, but the question should still be asked...

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If you are not a good guest, you have no right to complain about receiving poor hospitality.

Anglo-Irish and Hiberno-English (and latterly Irish English) have quite different meanings. From the introduction to Ó Muirithe's A Dictionary of Anglo-Irish (2000), p. 11:

"Professor P L Henry of University College, Galway, spoke of the three major strands that are woven in the English of Ireland: 'Firstly, a characteristically rural variety compounded of Irish and English or Irish and Scots. This developed chiefly in the last century and a half and is properly called Anglo-Irish. The second is a more urban, regional and standard variety tending towards international or so-called Standard English. This derives ultimately from British settlers in Ireland and its germinal period was the 17th Century. It is properly called Hiberno-English. The third strand is Ulster Scots from the same period.' I readily concede that the term 'Anglo-Irish' does not please everybody..."

Anglo-Irish is used very specifically to refer to the localised English of areas, usually rural, that had been recently Irish-speaking. It exhibits a very strong and direct influence from the former Irish dialect of the area lexically, grammatically and phonologically. (cf: Anglo-Manx vs Manx English.)

It is not the same as Hiberno-English, which is a blanket term used of various Englishes spoken in Ireland (usually historically and often relating to urban varieties), or Irish English, which refers, also in a blanket way, to the evolving Englishes spoken in Ireland today.

Of course you are entirely correct that the questioner would do us a great favour if he or she could find out which language (whether English or Gaeilge) was spoken in their family.

No apology needed at all.



I don't know what that is either

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It is recommended that you always wait for three to agree on a translation.
I speak Connemara Irish, and my input will often reflect that.
I will do an mp3 file on request for short translations.
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b, p, c/k, g, d, t are stops as the air is stopped to a greater or lesser degree. The rest (or the ones I missed) are not

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I was PMed this other suggestion -

Seans go bhfuil focal eile ann:
Glagaire (ar nós 'Clabaire')
...a ghlagaire... agus an chaoi a measctar an 'n' agus an 'r' scaití...
...glagaire: Duine an-chainteach agus nach mbeadh mórán céille lena chuid cainte ach ag sioscadh leis, bíodh sé fíor nó bréagach.
You silly boy!, a ghlagaire!

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It is recommended that you always wait for three to agree on a translation.
I speak Connemara Irish, and my input will often reflect that.
I will do an mp3 file on request for short translations.
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I thought of that, too, but was shy about saying so. FGB has glogarnach, gliogarnach, and gliogar (as well as gliogaireacht) as variant forms of "(foolish) prattling", with gliogaire, formed from the third one, as a person who does the prattling (probably a variant form of glagaire). So, if gliogar (and perhaps glagar in some places) can be the act and glagaire and gliogaire the person, perhaps glogarnach or gliogarnach could also be used to name the person, which when addressing him might result in a ghlogarnaigh or a ghliogarnaigh.

Hope I haven't messed up the spelling there anywhere!

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I'm not a native (or entirely fluent) speaker, so be sure to wait for confirmations/corrections, especially for tattoos.

Thank you all - especially Bríd Mhór for the recordings. Having played the sounds for my father, he thinks it is probably the "a ghleacánaí" that sounded most like what he remembers.

Again - thanks to all of you. Your on-line discussion was fascinating to my father, mother, and I. You have helped solve a bit of a family mystery that had stood out for decades.

Glad to be of assistance

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You are very welcome.