Hi,

A friend of mine is making a collage for my nana’s Birthday and she asked me for a saying to put on it. My grandfather used to say there is no need to fear the wind if your haystack is tied down. My nana has been in Boston, Massachusetts for the past 87 years and hasn’t seen a haystack in that time so I was wondering how I would say There is no need to fear the wind(minus the haystack stuff) in Irish. According to google, which is the worst place to look for a translation, it would be Níl aon chuis eagla aran ghaoth. I do know that eagla would loosely translate into fear and ghaoth is wind but I’m not sure about the sentence structure. Any help would be fantastic. Thanks

Ní gá eagla a bheith ort ...
or
Níl call ar bith le heagla ...

... roimh an ngaoth

Rather than using a literary translation, I would suggest using an existing old "seanfhocal"(old Irish saying) which says "Ní hé lá na gaoithe lá na scolb". Translated it means that a windy is not the day for thatching or tying down a haystack with scollops

Thank you both

Back again. I was going with option one, again because haystack aren’t a thing in Boston but now my sister threw her two cents in....she hates both and thinks I should go with either a part of gentle woman, so “gentle woman, shining light, morning star, so strong and bright”. (my nana’s Fav song) or this “ it is in the shelter of each other that the Irish live” This will be burned on to a 24x 30 collage of her life so limited space for the writing . If either of these can be translated that would be appreciated. If not, all the better for me. Sorry for the trouble and thank you for the help!

Number 2 is also an old Irish saying :“Ar scáth a chéile a mhaireann na daoine,” is an Irish saying that
translates literally as “People live in each other’s shadows.” Meaning,
we are shielded from the sun by each other, we rely on each other for
shelter. People need each other

Well thank you for the explanation. I had never hear it and had no idea where my sister got it from.