Nach do mhoithich sibh s' docha gur nas ainneaimhe is nas ainneaimhe a tha a' Ghaidhlig anns an colbh aig Eachann? Don't you notice perhaps that Gaelic is less and less frequent in Hector's column as published?
Mar a thuirt Eachann e-fhein. As Eachann himself says:
Saturday
... there is no Gaelic Art as such, since I stopped doing Friday in Gaelic....
Abair e!
Saturday, 23 January 2010
Tuesday, 19 January 2010
Ars' Eachann
... the word Arsa or shortened to Ars' is an old word for said. You will find it throughout Eachann's writing even in English. It is almost exactly like 'quoth' in English and adds a literary tone to writing. The subject of the verb 'arsa' almost always gets a emphatic ending. So Ars' esan where esan is the pronoun 'e' (he) with the '-san' added for emphasis. Likewise Ars' mise - with mi (me) extended to mise for emphasis.
Friday, 15 January 2010
Aimsir Eachainn, 19 April 1985
Thursday
I don't think anymore that I will get away. I can hardly believe that those words came from Findlay last week. Satan must have blinded the poor lad. If I get my feet out of the quagmire here one time more, I will never return. There is something un-natural about this island - as if it was that the people are half-running towards death, frightened completely out of their lives .
I don't think anymore that I will get away. I can hardly believe that those words came from Findlay last week. Satan must have blinded the poor lad. If I get my feet out of the quagmire here one time more, I will never return. There is something un-natural about this island - as if it was that the people are half-running towards death, frightened completely out of their lives .
Aimsir Eachainn, 21 September 1984
[just a few words of Gaidhlig - but worth it]
Tuesday
'...will never scribble as much as a note to the milk person in that cheap language.'
Seall seo, fichead mile not sa bhliadhna.
Look at this £20,000 a year.
'What do you think of that, then....'
And to help you towards such a tuarasdal (wage), remember that the Gaidhlig for sea urchin is crogan feannaig.
Tuesday
'...will never scribble as much as a note to the milk person in that cheap language.'
Seall seo, fichead mile not sa bhliadhna.
Look at this £20,000 a year.
'What do you think of that, then....'
And to help you towards such a tuarasdal (wage), remember that the Gaidhlig for sea urchin is crogan feannaig.
Monday, 11 January 2010
Aimsir Eachainn, 20 April 1984
Monday
For some time I have been considering making more use of the 8 acres of land that are between me and the shore which we call 'the croft' or "the lot". At one time I was half-thinking that perhaps I would get 2000 chickens, but I was afraid that Domhnall Beag Ceann Urnabhaigh would jump. But then the IDP [Indegrated Development Programme] came along and I thought to myself - here is my chance. I'll put, I said to myself, the entire croft under asparagus. And if Eachann Ruadh had not come to visit me a fortnight ago perhaps I would have started on it. You poor sad case, he said, giving [me] a blow to the back of the head, didn't your mother tell you anything? Did you hear about the first man who came home with a scythe with two handles to it. They turned out of every corner to make fun of him. The fool they cried, he will break his back, and they went off home to their old single-handed sickles that they had had from the time of Noah.
Who knows if they were not right. Perhaps asparagus will not grow in any case.
For some time I have been considering making more use of the 8 acres of land that are between me and the shore which we call 'the croft' or "the lot". At one time I was half-thinking that perhaps I would get 2000 chickens, but I was afraid that Domhnall Beag Ceann Urnabhaigh would jump. But then the IDP [Indegrated Development Programme] came along and I thought to myself - here is my chance. I'll put, I said to myself, the entire croft under asparagus. And if Eachann Ruadh had not come to visit me a fortnight ago perhaps I would have started on it. You poor sad case, he said, giving [me] a blow to the back of the head, didn't your mother tell you anything? Did you hear about the first man who came home with a scythe with two handles to it. They turned out of every corner to make fun of him. The fool they cried, he will break his back, and they went off home to their old single-handed sickles that they had had from the time of Noah.
Who knows if they were not right. Perhaps asparagus will not grow in any case.
Aimsir Eachainn, 15 July 1983
Friday
I heard a good one last night in Raebhat House. As you yourself know, the West Siders are terribly backwards. They do not do much in general society and so they do not learn. It appears that when the first croman [bent-handled hoe] came to Baravas, and it was not so long ago as all that, that there was great joy in the village. They came out of the black houses, young and old, so that they could see this amazing device. Then it happened that an old lad took a strong fancy to it and asked if he could have it for a short time. He got on with it so well that he hoed the entire village's potatoes. The man who the croman belonged to got mad. "Look at you there" he said, "going around the village making a big man of yourself with another man's croman. "
I heard a good one last night in Raebhat House. As you yourself know, the West Siders are terribly backwards. They do not do much in general society and so they do not learn. It appears that when the first croman [bent-handled hoe] came to Baravas, and it was not so long ago as all that, that there was great joy in the village. They came out of the black houses, young and old, so that they could see this amazing device. Then it happened that an old lad took a strong fancy to it and asked if he could have it for a short time. He got on with it so well that he hoed the entire village's potatoes. The man who the croman belonged to got mad. "Look at you there" he said, "going around the village making a big man of yourself with another man's croman. "
Sunday, 10 January 2010
Aimsir Eachainn, 15 October 1982
Walter Murdy...
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I could not get over [usually faigh leis - get away with, succeed] that fool Walter telling you about the journey of Eachann to Glasgow, but time will tell if we will live through the coming week.
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I could not get over [usually faigh leis - get away with, succeed] that fool Walter telling you about the journey of Eachann to Glasgow, but time will tell if we will live through the coming week.
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