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comhluadar 'company'
guairillí plural of guairille 'guerrilla'
ag cnuchairt mhóna 'footing turf'
ligeas di 'I let her be'
cúthalach 'bashful'
nuair a bhí an smúit socraithe 'when the dust had settled'
arú inné 'the day before yesterday'
gach re 'every other'
lasca 'chic what is 'chic an abbreviation for here? Is it just Béarlachas of 'kick'
bhí sé olc a dhóthain ... 'it was bad enough ...'
ní thabharfainn le rá don mbligeard eile é 'I wouldn't give him the chance to say it'
agus a léithéid eile 'and such another'
tuathalaíocht 'awkwardness'
agus is minic, a chuireadh sé amach sinn ag priocadh ... . does anyone know why there is a comma seperating is minic and a chuireadh? Also, a chuireadh would normally not have lenition, at least in CDh
cad a dhéanfair led' shaol 'what will you do with your life'
d'imigh sé ciúin ansan orm 'then he got quiet on me'
tá sé ráite go féidir an capall a thabhairt go dtí an uisce ach ná féidir é a chur ag ól 'it is said that you can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink', with go instead of gur
tobar an eolais 'the fountain of wisdom'
polaiteoir 'politician'
díomhaointeas 'idleness'
saothraí 'labourer'
sa ló 'a day', also isló, ló being the dative of lá

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fiafriú (sic: should be fiafrú, without the second i), 'asking', alternative of fiafraí
cheapamar go raibh sé go léir socraithe 'we thought that it had all been settled'
téigí the normal form in CDh is téirídh or téigh
toilteanach 'deserving'
ceann ar cheann 'one after another, one by one'
gléigeal 'pure white, transparently clear'
Bhí Mike ag dul san aos 'Mike was growing up'?
saothar 'toil'
breill gháirí 'a big, fat-lipped smile' (the dative breill replacing the nominative breall)

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toilteanach or toiltheanach means "willing". Tuíllteanach (with a long vowel) means "deserving".

Ag dul san aois - getting on in years.

Thank you

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rún is ea an grá 'love is a secret/mystery'
páirtaimseartha 'part-time'
bróidnéireacht 'embroidery'
ní raghaidh cuil i mbéal dúnta 'a fly won't go into a closed mouth', I'm assuming a proverb? I don't know what the English would be

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- A closed mouth catches no flies. Silence is golden?

There’s a proverb in Spanish almost identical to the Irish one: ‘En boca cerrada no entran moscas’. - Flies don’t go into a closed mouth.

Interesting, thanks you

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an simplíocht atá ort 'how crazy/stupid are you'
gníomhach 'active'
bhí dlí neamhscríofa inár dtighna 'there was an unwritten (unspoken) rule in our house'

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scrígh alternative form of scríobh
thug sé ana-mhisneach dom 'he/it made me very brave'
tromchroíoch 'heavy hearted'
ar an naoú lá fichead de Mhárta naoi déag agus a seachtó haon, ... bhíos im' sheasamh ar oileán Haulbowline 'on the twenty-ninth day of March, nineteen seventy-one, I stood on Haulbowline island' this phrase breaks the rule stated by Peadar Ó Laoghaire in his Notes on Irish Words and Usages: 'Tháinig D. abhaile an trímhadh lá de'n mhí… not, ar an trímhadh lá. The preposition should not be used where the occurrence of an action or of an event is narrated', perhaps showing that the rule is less restricted outside of his ideolect. It also uses the numeral phrase seachtó a haon, 'seventy one', a number which is not traditionally used in Munster Irish, aon ndéag is trí fichid being preferred (but it is becoming increasingly common to use the decimal numbers such as seasca, seachtó, ochtó when speaking of years)
mairnéalach, pronounced mairinéalach, I believe that epenthesis is often found between r and n, but the preceding vowel might often be lengthened instead, thus máirnéalach

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thug sé ana-mhisneach dom: it boosted my spirits? encouraged me?
tromachroíoch: with an extra vowel
máirnéalach with no additional vowel