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Dolphins are sea pigs.

Tháinig snag beag agus thug soirbheas leis (The storm eased and brought a fair wind)

Capturing and killing a wren on St Stephen’s Day meant you could take on its powers. 👀

Sciathán leathair means bat (leather wing). But it used to be called bás dorcha (dark death).

When you learn about the five words Irish has to delineate the stages of dawn, it changes your experience of sunrises for evermore.

Neuroscience tells us that a langue can’t change our reality, but it has also shown us that different languages allow us to see things in different ways and to focus on different things.

Fear Dorcha = Dark Man, figure from Fionn Mac Cumhaill

“Tree dog” is a squirrel

Neuroscience tells us that a language can’t change our reality, but it has also shown us that different languages allow us to see things in different ways and to focus on different things.