There are times when I really regret having passed through the Irish education system, but none more so when I have to resort to a dictionary to understand a message from a friend in a language I studied for fourteen years.
Yeah, that's Donegal Irish. My own dialect is a horrible mess of Connaught (from my father, one secondary school teacher), RTE (from my national school teacher), Kerry (another secondary school teacher), and Donegal (Gaeltacht). The ban a' tí in the house I stayed in the second time round had a strong accent, and it took us a few mornings to work out that "moji' wy!" was "maidín mhaith".
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