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A little bit of Gaelic to start the week:
Is minic a bhris beal duine a shrón. Many a time a man's mouth broke his nose: PRONOUNCED: Iss minick a vrish bale din-eh a hrone: ------------------------------------------------------------------- Níl saoí gan locht There is no wise man, without a fault (flaw) PRONOUNCED: Neel see gone luckt (Munster dialect) ___________________________ COUNTING TO TEN IN GAELIC ------------------------------------------- One = a haon PRONOUNCED A haine two = a dó '' A doe Three = A trí '' A tree Four = A ceathair '' A Ka her Five = A cúig ''. A Koo ig Six = A Sé '' A Shay Seven = A Seacht '' A shocked Eight = A Hocht '' A Huckt Nine = A Naoi ,, A Nay Ten = A Deich '' A Deh
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 This may interest visitors to us here in Waterford. This is the 'Brian Boru' sailing ship. The Brian Boru traditional sailing experience, will offer visitors hour long tours on board this 70ft. long wooden sailing ketch, with lessons about the area's heritage, culture,and natural history. It still has it's traditional rigging and wooden hull, and is the only craft of it's kind with a P3 license.
IRISH SAYING: Níl aon tinteán, mar do thinteáin féin: There's no place like home (Literally. There is no hearth, like your own hearth: PRONOUNCED: Kneel ain tintawn, mar duh hintawn faine (Munster dialect)
  One of the most surprising and generous contributions to Irish famine relief came from the Choctaw Nation.
A group gathered in Scullyville Oklahoma in 1847 to collect funds for the starving Irish. A great gesture from those who had so little: Just 16 years prior to this collection, the Choctaw had been forced of their lands and forced to endure a 500 mile trek to Oklahoma known as the 'Trail of Tears'. The Choctaw felt affinity with the Irish...both had endured the conquests of others...loss of land...forced migration...mass starvation...and cultural suppression: The plaque is in Dublin's Mansion House, home of Dublin's Lord Mayor. The sculpture, in Cork, represents eagle feathers, in the shape of an empty bowl: Today there is much cultural and personal exchange between the Irish and the Choctaw.  THE FAIRY BUSH THAT STOPPED A ROAD BEING BUILT: That ordinary looking bush....is..in fact a very important Fairy Tree: In 1999, the government was upgrading the national route from Limerick to Galway. The bush was due to be removed....but a local seanachaí (story teller) said the tree was a meeting place for the fairies of Munster..before doing battle with the fairies of Galway. There were protests...the road had to be changed to accommodate the fairies..and this delayed the construction by 10 years....it was only completed in 2009.. The County Council of Clare has protected the the tree...nobody may go within 5 metres radius...and they built a wall around it: Sometimes I think we Irish are just a little mad.
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