djwebb2021 wrote:
Why would your grandmother's great-aunt have spoken Standardised Irish, which you say is the type of Irish spoken in your area of Cork? Was the CO found in Cork before the CO was drawn up? Ar an teach doesn't make sense in Cork Irish.
The conspiracy runs deep.
Of course she wasn't using standardised Irish. This would have been back in the 1930s and 40s. I'm just trying to approximate something I heard over 20 years ago, that I can't remember entirely correctly.
djwebb2021 wrote:
Bail ó Dhia anso isteach is the correct phrase. The answer is Dia 's Muire dhuit, or Dé bheatha-sa.
Agus ar an té adeir sé é would not be correct. Agus ar an té adeireann é would make sense.
That's great, thanks. Does it appear somewhere in Peadar Ua Laoghaire's work, or other Cork writings? Or is it still used like this in Múscraí?