Is iad na muca ciúine a itheas an mhin - the quiet pigs eat the meal.#seanfhocal

Is geal leis an bhfiach dubh a gearrcach féin.- the raven thinks it's own fledgling beautiful.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. #seanfhocal

Ní fhaca mé riamh an seanfhocal seo. Cad atá á rá aige? D'fhéadfadh éinne a bheith ina rí lá éigin, is maith an scéalaí an aimsir, saigheas?

https://nos.ie/meain/soisialta/ta-an-bearlachas-a-chur-amach-ar-na-meain-faoi-bhranda-na-gaeilge/

#gaeilge #seanfhocal

@BrilleBhrealla @sinabhfuil

I ndáiríre, tá an struchtúr céanna ann le "Ní neart go cur le chéile" freisin!

Beidh an struchtúr sin i ngach áit anois!

#Seanfhocal #NathannaCainte #Gaeilge

@BrilleBhrealla @sinabhfuil

Fuair mé cúpla ceann eile san FGB:

Ní céasadh go pósadh,
Ní heolas go haontíos
Ní féasta go rósta

Beadh mé i dtrioblóid dá aistreoinn an chéad ceann, ach "you don't know someone until you've lived with them" agus "nothing makes a feast like roast meat" atá i geist leis na cinn eile.

Anois, tuigim cén fáth gur thuig mé "Ní saoirse go sciatháin"!

#Seanfhocal #NathannaCainte #Gaeilge

“Ní saoirse go sciatháin”

Tá an abairt sin sa Nuacht Mhall an tseachtain seo. Tuigim cad is brí leis, ach nílim in ann é a mhíniú. Ceapaim gur chuala mé an struchtúr céanna i seanfhocal eigin b'fhéidir, ach ní cuimhin liom. Tháinig mé ar "ní radharc go hathradharc" (hindsight is twenty/twenty) ar focloir.ie, ach an bhfuil sampla eile ar "Ní <ainmfhocal> go <ainmfhocal>" ag éinne?

#Gaeilge @Gaeilge #NuachtMhall #SeanFhocal #CnaG

https://player.fm/series/nuacht-mhall/ep-11-feabhra-2023-ard-mhacha

The 'quieter' coach on the Cork-Dublin train. Is binn béal ina thost Literally! and I love the quieter not quiet - @irishrail #mastodaoine #seanfhocal

Faigheann cos ar shiúl rud nach bhfaigheann cos ina cónaí mura bhfaighe sé ach dealg.#seanfhocal #Gaeilge

Gabhair i gcónaí iad :D

Listening to GOP leaders McConnell & McCarthy puffing their chests for the brave police at the Congressional Medal of Honor ceremony brings a favorite Irish saying to mind:

Cuir síoda ar ghabhar ach is gabhar i gcónaí é.

Translation (read in a Colin Farrell voice):

Put silk on a goat and it's still a *feckin' goat.

*Linguistic license taken.

#seanfhocail #seanfhocal #hubris #jan6

There’s a #seanfhocal (Irish proverb) that is my mantra for this time in the semester:

Mair, a chapaill, agus gheobhair féar. Live, horse, and you will get grass.

Fair warning though: students do not find it amusing when written on the board prior to an exam, no matter how apt it seems.

#Gaeilge #teaching #histodons

Tá seanfhocail aisteacha amuigh ansin, cuid acu nach léiríonn meas…ahem…ollmhór ar mhná, ach tá sé suimiúil cé chomh coitianta a bhíonns dúil ag daoine i rangú de réir datha: dath na súl, dath na gruaige agus dath an chraicinn ar ndóigh. B’fhéidir gur bhain muid amach an buaicphointe leis an aicmiú de réir cineál fola sa tSeapáin.

Seo dhaoibh cúpla oideas a fuair mé in “Six hundred Gaelic proverbs collected in Ulster”.

Fear dubh, dána ; fear fionn, glídúil ;
Fear donn, dualach ; fear ruadh, scigiúil.

“A dark-haired man is bold, a light-haired man one timid ;
A brown-haired man has luxuriant hair, and a red-haired is a scoffer.”

English.
Fair and foolish, black and proud,
Long and lazy, little and loud.

Scotch.
Grey-eyed greedy, brown-eyed needy.
Black-eyed never blin’, till it shame a’ its kin ;
AND
Fair folk are aye fuzzionless.

Spanish
Asno cojo, y hombre rojo, y el demonio, todo es uno.
[A lame ass, a red-haired man, and the devil are all one.]
#Gaeilge #seanfhocal

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@IrishDesigns You can always crowd source things from other #mastodaoine. 😊💯

#seanfhocal #gaeilge

Faoi láthair, is fearr an t-uaigneas ná an t-imreas.

Ach tá 67% (mise san áireamh) fós idir dhá chomhairle.

Gaeilge ar 'fence-sitters, the lot of yiz'? #Gaeilge #Seanfhocal

"An té go mbíonn an rath air féin, bíonn sé ar a chuid cabáiste" arsa Tuirne, mo choileáinín.

#seanfhocal #madra