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PostPosted: Tue 30 Jun 2015 10:19 am 
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Lughaidh wrote:
Mí na Féile Eoin
Mí na Súl Buí

Very interesting, I've never encountered these two before. What is their history? Mí na Súl Buí literally means "month of the yellow eye" - am I correct? Is it because July is usually the sunniest month of the year?
Also, what is Féile Eoin in this case?


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PostPosted: Tue 30 Jun 2015 3:18 pm 
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Pangur wrote:
Lughaidh wrote:
Mí na Féile Eoin
Mí na Súl Buí

Very interesting, I've never encountered these two before. What is their history? Mí na Súl Buí literally means "month of the yellow eye" - am I correct? Is it because July is usually the sunniest month of the year?
Also, what is Féile Eoin in this case?


24 June
Lá Fhéile Eoin = St John’s Day, Nativity of St John the Baptist.


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PostPosted: Tue 30 Jun 2015 10:44 pm 
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Labhrás wrote:
Pangur wrote:
Lughaidh wrote:
Mí na Féile Eoin
Mí na Súl Buí

Very interesting, I've never encountered these two before. What is their history? Mí na Súl Buí literally means "month of the yellow eye" - am I correct? Is it because July is usually the sunniest month of the year?
Also, what is Féile Eoin in this case?


24 June
Lá Fhéile Eoin = St John’s Day, Nativity of St John the Baptist.


In Conamara it's Lá (fhéile) tSin Seáin.
And on the eve of that day (Oíche Fhéil' tSin Seáin) it is traditional to burn bonfires.

http://tuairisc.ie/anocht-oiche-shin-se ... cumhachta/


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PostPosted: Wed 01 Jul 2015 1:01 am 
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Mí na Súl Buí = the month of the yellow eyes.
Actually I don't know if it's really about eyes or something else (súil is a cognate of Latin "sol" = sun...)

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PostPosted: Wed 01 Jul 2015 7:41 am 
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Thanks a lot for your explanatinons! I love learning about history and etymology. :)


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PostPosted: Wed 01 Jul 2015 9:02 pm 
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Part of the reason for there being so many variations is that the Gaels did not traditionally have names for the months, per se, or so I've read (I thought I had a good article about it, but can't find it right now). They apparently described parts of the year (not necessarily distinct months) by characteristics or special times which occurred then. For example, the Scottish name for December, An Dubhlachd, referred originally to the dark period of the year, and not necessarily just that month.

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