Thank you. I haven't seen that. That's useful.

That would make sense, since even in dialects outside of Munster that don't use the dative tigh X is used to mean 'at X('s)', especially in pub names like Tigh Thaidhg in Ros na Rún

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I have come across that form too

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tá an cead ag gach éinne a shlí fhéin a dhéanamh sa tsaol, tá cead ag gach éinne without the article is more common
is leo san is ea é 'it is theirs'
ná cuma anois 'it doesn't matter now'. It seems that both the negative and positive copula + cuma carry the same meaning, but the positive (is cuma) is more common.
'Bhreá liom na focail bheith agam 'I'd love to know the words'
ná bíodh aon bhrú ort teacht 'don't feel any need to come'
bí ansan 'be there', Béarlachas. bí ann is better, I would think, but it still seems quite non-native
bhí an gheir ag sileadh léi agus bhí sí chomh goirt 'the fat was dripping off of it and it was so salty'
bhraitheas go raibh suim caillte aige ins gach aon rud 'I felt that he had lost interest in everything'
is ait an mac an saol 'life is strange', literally 'life is a strange son'
dífhostaíocht 'unemployment'
tar éis dóibh dháréag clainne a thógaint 'after they raised twelve children', the usually order is for the do + subject to come after the verbal noun, i.e. tar éis dháréag clainne a thógaint dóibh
ciontach 'guilty'
bhí poll mór curtha ag bás mo mháthar 'my mother's death had made a huge hole'
milleán 'blame'
ní hé seo le rá in aon chor go rabhas-sa ag dul tríd an saol le ciarsúir im' láimh agam ag triomú na ndeor 'this isn't to say that I was going through life with a handkerchief in my hand drying my tears'

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Séamus, are you near the end of the book? Would you consider reading Beatha Wolfe Tone, a translation into Munster Irish done by Pádraig Ó Siochradha? There are copies for about $27 available on abebooks.com I've read a couple of chapters and made many notes.

Thanks for the recommendation! I am near the end of the book. I'm always looking for books by native Munster authors (especially, obviously, those from CDh).

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That translation was done in the 1930s. The book is in the Roman script, but all the spellings are the original old spellings.

Did it have an editor, or was it published as is by an Seabhac?

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I don't think there was an editor. It was published by An Gúm (a government body set up in 1925, which published Irish works through Oifig Díolta Foillseacháin Rialtais). But, despite being a very famous person, he is described on ainm.ie as a breac-chainteoir (he grew up in an area with a lot of Irish, but it was a breac-Ghaeltacht).

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breoiteacht bhaile 'home-sickness', this might be Béarlachas. Does anyone know of a better term?
ní raibh aon dá bhliain imithe 'only two years had gone by'?
áiféis 'exaggeration, nonsense'
dallán veinéiseach I'm guessing 'Venetian blinds'
saghas plaisteach nouns don't often take the genitive after saghas or sórt in CDh
ní foláir nó 'it must'
gaofar 'windy'
leoithne gaoithe 'breath of wind'
am mhairbh na hoíche 'the dead of night'
bunchloch 'foundation-stone'

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Soir gaċ síar, fé ḋeireaḋ thíar