dia daoibh a chairde ghaeil.

Any Ulster speakers about? In termsn of pronunciation is -adh pretty much always pronounced ú?

Bheireadh sé...(ver-ú)
Thugadh sé a sheoladh...(hug-ú / show-lú)
Bhéarfadh an madra an liathróid (Ver-hú)
Rinneadh an balla. (Rin-ú)

GRMA

-Adh is pronounced like -ú, BUT when followed by the subject pronouns sé, sí, (sinn), sibh, siad (and seisean, sise etc), and probably seo, sin, siod, -adh is pronounced /ət'/. As if "rachadh sé" was spelt "rachaitsé" etc.
The past habitual is frequently replaced by either the conditional, or by "ba ghnách..."+ verbal noun.

Bhéarfadh sé... /v'eːrhət's'a/
Bhéarfadh an madadh ar an liathróid /v'eːrhu: n maduː er' ə l'iəhrad'/
Rinneadh an balla. /riN'u: n baLə/

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Is fearr Gaeilg na Gaeltaċta ná Gaeilg ar biṫ eile
Agus is í Gaeilg Ġaoṫ Doḃair is binne

go raibh maith agat a Lughaidh.

...to the moon...?

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Sea, go dtí an Mumhain.

Agus an rachait sib'se go dtí an Mumhain?

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Múinteoir Gaeilge - Irish Teacher
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).

Has anyone ever done an analysis of the variance between /x/ and /ú/ for the modal endings as they vary by verb with a dialect. I thought it might be -ú before a consonant and -ach before a vowel, but that doesn't hold, I don't think

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It might be more arbitrary than that. In ScG, the /u:/ ending is -amh. I'm aware of 4 verbal noun endings in ScG -- -adh,-inn,-il, and -amh. Dialects don't always agree on endings -- eg following is leantail in Argyle, but leantainn in most other areas (but lifting is almost universally togail). I can't think of an -amh word other than dèanamh (although I'm sure there are a few).

"-ú" may be a conservation of the -amh ending, just in a lot of words that the most documented dialects would have another ending for.

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Yes, it seems to be, if not arbitrary, at least apparently so as the system settled down to a different ending depending on verb and mood, all learned at the mother's knee, as it were

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-adh is ú throughout Mayo as well and places in north Connemara