When I wrote contemptuous, I was referring to an cine gorm, not fear gorm, as it was described as such in de Bhaldraithe's dictionary. Whether it is really contemptuous or not I'm not sure, the most reliable answer to that question would be from native speakers of the language. What I do know is that, as Americans, we are taught the the word 'negro' is a somewhat outdated and possibly offensive term, albeit not nearly as offensive as the derived word which people refer to as 'the n-word'. I have heard both fear gorm and fear dubh in CDh Irish (see Caipíní, season one episode one on TG4, about 15:30 in, where both are used). In the book the phrase was cúigear nó seisear de mhuintir an chine ghoirm, though it is not unlikely that the editor made the phrase masculine to coincide with the CO.

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is rudaí mar sin normally the stress in the word rudaí falls on the second syllable, but in this phrase and others like it, as Ó Sé noted, it can fall on the first syllable. This stress shift is especially common with nouns being modified by adjectives that begin with long vowels, e.g. cailín óg, with the stress on the first syllable in cailín
chuma leothu dá mbeifeá nochtaithe chomh fada is bhí aeroguard ort 'they didn't care if you were naked as long as you had aeroguard on', I think chomh fada is Béarlachas. If so, fad would be better (i.e. fad a bhí ...)
dúirt cúpla duine liom saighneáil ar an ndeol does anyone know what deol means here?
meon 'disposition'

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muíntir na cine guirme/duíbhe

Of course, you can argue that an chine ghuirm or an chine dhubh is a phrase noun that can stand in the Nominative Absolute: muíntir an chine ghuirm/dhubh

saighneáil ar an ndeol: could this be "sign on the dole" (e.g. apply for public welfare as an unemployed person)?

Maybe an fhaid a?

Donncha Ó Céileachair wrote that in the vocative a chailín, the accent falls on chail. And in a Cheallacháin, it falls on Cheall. This happens, he wrote, only when the first syllable does not have a reduced vowel. As in a amadáin, the first vowel of amadáin is the neutral schwa vowel, the accent doesn't move to it.

I thought the nominative absolute only applied to noun phrases made up of more than one noun (e.g. hata fhear an tí) (though I suppose that an chine ghuirm would qualify as this if you are viewing guirm as the genitive of the noun gorm instead of the adjective)? Do you have any other examples of this?

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Thanks, that's probably it.

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Yeah, I think there are a lot of variants: faid, fhaid, an fhaid ...

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pluda 'mud'
bhí cuma an diabhail ar a cheann agus é ag féachaint orm 'it had the look of the devil on its face as it was looking at me'
bhí sé teanntaithe ag na wipers 'it was stuck in the wipers'
comhraic 'encounter, fight'
an toirt atá ionat 'how big you are'

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