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#142885 07/23/04 02:51 PM
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Hello!
It's been a little quiet around here lately.... Well, it's time to shake things up a bit. Let me introduce myself, I'm Mary Ellen Sweeney, your new Irish Culture editor and student of all I observe.
There's a lot going on in Ireland right now and it's time to have a bit of "craic" around here. So, open up, girls, whether you're first generation, fifth generation, Martian (now, with you, I'd really like a word), or simply married to one of those irresistible, irrepressible Paddys, c'mon and pour yourself a cuppa tea and tell us all about yourself. :kiss:

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#142886 07/28/04 05:19 PM
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Thank you, I will! First of all, please translate the thread's title and the word 'craic.' Actually, I'm Irish several generations removed, but originally I believe we came from the Pleides. Don't know when I'll be going back...

#142887 07/28/04 11:51 PM
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A Hundred Thousand Welcomes

Craic is an Irish word for the combination of delightful company, lively conversation, and good humor, sometimes mixed with spirits, but entirely possible with just tea to whet the whistle.

You'll be going back sooner than you think. I'm sure of it.


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#142888 08/01/04 10:10 AM
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Thanks, Irish Culture Maven. I assume my sisters will be "going back sooner" along with me. I'll tell them. They'll be thrilled. I'm going to lobby to have the next child in the family named "Craic." How come more children aren't?

#142889 08/01/04 06:10 PM
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Pleides. Hmmm. I'll have to look up.<G>

Craic is pronounced "crack." This may have some bearing on its use as a child's name.

There is, however a respectable increase, at least to my ear, in the use of Gaelic forenames for children over the more pedestrian Johns and Marys of the 50s and 60s.

I'll have to ask the family Gaeilgeoir (speaker, or learner, of Irish) if there is an appropriate word similar to craic that one could name a child, like the Irish for constellation, or something.
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