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PostPosted: Fri 17 Jul 2015 12:06 am 
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How about this as a possibility?

Tá cumha orm i ndiaidh mo dhúchais
I long for my [home town/homeland/native place]

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PostPosted: Fri 17 Jul 2015 1:19 am 
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CaoimhínSF wrote:
How about this as a possibility?

Tá cumha orm i ndiaidh mo dhúchais
I long for my [home town/homeland/native place]

In that case, I'd suggest dúiche or dúthaigh, rather than dúchas:

Tá cumha orm i ndiaidh mo dhúiche.

or

Tá cumha orm i ndiaidh mo dhúthaigh.

I'd interpret Tá cumha orm i ndiaidh mo dhúchais more as "I long for my heritage".

Although it can refer to a place, dúchas is more the abstract concept of "heritage" and can even mean "(going back to) one's old ways or habits".

For a place, I think you'd normally clarify dúchas with a place noun baile dúchais "native home/home town", áit dhúchais "native place", tír dhúchais "native land", etc.

So another possibility is:

Tá cumha orm i ndiaidh mo bhaile dúchais. "I long for my native home."

Dúiche (and dúthaigh) specifically refers to such a place. I've also heard it in the diminutive, as dúthaighín:

Tá cumha orm i ndiaidh mo dhúichín/dhúthaighín.

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