Greetings all,

I am trying to find the proper translation for 'By the Grace if God' in Irish, or Gaeilge if you will. I have found a few translations such as: ' 'le grásta Dé'' and 'Trí dheonú Dé' but I want to positive on the literal translation. I was born in Swinford, County Mayo but moved to U.S. at a very young age and, therefore, have not learned Irish.

I am looking for the translation to complete a tattoo and so, of course, am looking for the correct and proper translation and want to be assured it is 100% correct. The more people that can confirm the correct translation, the better. Or anyone that is an accredited Irish translator would be much appreciated as well.

I welcome suggestions on proper font as it is going to surround a shamrock tattoo I have which is done in a Celtic style.

Thank you in advance for any help you can provide would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Patrick

FYI: This has also been posted to the Reddit forum for Gaeilge.

Deonú is a consent or a grant. Trí dheonú Dé is like "By the consent of God".
Grásta means grace in the normal religious sense (it has other meanings).

I think it depends on what you mean exactly. Grace is God's redeeming power, where as you might mean something more like, By God's grace I get to work on this beautiful island which I think Trí dheonú Dé might work better with.

I don't know what others think.

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The dialect I use is Cork Irish.
Ar sgáth a chéile a mhairid na daoine, lag agus láidir, uasal is íseal

Thank you for your response. I want the 100% literal meaning, as that exact phrase has multiple meanings for me. Ex: By the Grace of God....I am Irish. By the Grace of God, I am able to help others, etc. I may have found the literal translation and would like your (and any others) opinion:

"trí ghrásta Dé"

Thanks!

Patrick

I think this needs more eyes on it.

I would think that "Trí ghrásta Dé" would work.

Redwolf

Yes, that's the literal meaning.

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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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There are a few ways of saying it in the Bible.

le grásta Dé. (1 Cor 15:10)
ar ghrásta Dé. (2 Cor 1:12)
trí ghrásta Dé. (Heb 2:9)

Le Grásta Dé - that's correct too.

I wouldn't use - "ar grásta Dé"

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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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Yeah, I think that use of ar arises because the Irish verse uses the verb brath which takes ar as a preposition:

agus ní ar eagna dhaonna a bhíomar ag brath ach ar ghrásta Dé.
"and it is not on earthly wisdom that we were depending but on God's grace."

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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).

As was already given:
Le grásta Dé
or
Trí ghrásta Dé
look fine to me and I would stand by either of these as a translation if asked for a translation of
'By the Grace of God'

You could spend time going down the contexts road of 'grace' meaning 'favour', etc. but given the words 'By the Grace of God' as given like this, I would stick with the above; and generally in Irish I would not capitalise the 'G' as given in the English.

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Bí cinnte de go nglacfaidh triúr le gach aistriúchán a thabharfar.
Be sure to get three in agreement with a translation given.

I wouldn't capitalize "grace" in English either, unless the OP wants initial caps for some reason (in which case, one wouldn't normally capitalized "the" or "of" in English).