User talk:D.de.loinsigh

Gaelic dialects
A good idea but it would require someone who is more knowledgeable than myself to implement. Im aware of one book dealing with a specific dialect - that of East Sutherland by Nancy Dorian. I could probably start up an article using that as a foundation but i wont have the time to dedicate to it for at least another month. I seem to recall seeing several small publications by - i think it was Trinity - one of the Irish universities dealing with specific regional dialects of Scottish Gaelic (i think the series came under "Irish Language: Scottish Dialects" or something similarly chauvinistic :-) ). siarach 16:48, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

Belfast City Airport
The airport is not located in the Republic and is not known by any Irish name. The airports language is the Queens English and all communication within the airport is as such. I am an airport employee and know that Irish is not used. As the airport is not an Irish airport it should not have any reference to a language with no ties to it. The Irish name is not an official name nor is it of any relevance to anyone wishing to use the airport or find any information on it. bcasuc 00:00, 05 May 2008 (BST)

Republic of Ireland / Ireland
Please read WP:IMOS. Convention is that the 'Republic of Ireland' is pipelinked to appear as 'Ireland', i.e. Ireland. Thanks. -- Schcambo aon scéal? 14:46, 10 May 2008 (UTC)

Irish translations
Please stop adding Irish translations to articles that someone made up. The articles you are adding them to have no official names in Irish, no used names in Irish, just translations someone made up which may indeed be occassionally used but has no official standing. See []. Canterbury Tail  talk  12:00, 16 June 2008 (UTC)
 * I have removed your translations once more. Unless there is evidence that the institutions have an official version of their names in Irish then these translations will fail WP:VERIFY.Traditional unionist (talk) 12:21, 14 July 2008 (UTC)

Hi Translation please
Could Please you Translate the following sentence into Gaelic (Irish) "Irish Orienteering Association(IOA)is the Irish national organisation of orienteering. It is a full Member of the International Orienteering Federation" thankyou  ARBAY   TALKies  21:56, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

"The Irish Orienteering Association (IOA) is the Irish national organisation of orienteering. It is a full Member of the International Orienteering Federation" "Is eagraíocht náisiúnta é Cumann Treodóireacht na hÉireann (CTÉ) atá dírithe ar an treoleanúint in Éirinn. Is ball foirfe den Chónaidhm Treodóireachta Idirnáisiúnta é."

I'm sorry, I haven't been logged onto wikipedia recently; I hope you get this in time. Best of luck! D.de.loinsigh (talk) 16:14, 06 August 2008 (UTC)


 * Thank you my Irish in really non existant, which is pretty bad considering my Grandfathers family are from Frenchpark Roscommon. Agian Thank you very much my aim is to create some interwiki links.Sorry to bother you agin but could you suggest a title for the Gaelic article on the CTÉ   ARBAY   TALKies  16:18, 6 August 2008 (UTC)

Image:Gaeltacht 1926.jpg
A Chara,

Chonaiceas an léarscáil seo a chruthaís; maith thú! tá sé ana-shuimúil.

Ach, cad is ainm dos na Gaeltachtaí a chím i gContae Luimnigh, go háirithe an ceann atá i lár an chontae? Ina theannta san, n'fheadar cá bhfuairis do chuid eolais.

Bheinn baoch dá gcabhrófá liom.

Slán, Dónall Dubh (talk) 20:56, 17 August 2008 (UTC)


 * Míle buíochas, a chara . . . . . Sound out! Dónall Dubh (talk) 09:56, 28 August 2008 (UTC)

Yes, this is a blatant advert!!
A chara. I just noticed from your userpage that you have a deep interest in the Irish (and indeed, other Celtic) languages. We could use a serious dig-out on some of the Gaelic language projects, especially in translating Mediawiki into Scots and Manx Gaelic. If you're interested, just give me a shout, or head over to Betawiki. Also, check out the Scots and Irish Gaelic wikipedias and wiktionaries. The Irish Gaelic wikti was successfully restarted last year, but the Scots and Manx ones remain dormant (hint, hint! :) )

Le gach dea-ghui / mòran taing / Slane lhiu - A l is o n  ❤ 17:48, 20 October 2008 (UTC)

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Gaelic British Isles
Just noticed the map you uploaded – it’s brilliant! This is probably a daft question (as the answer seems fairly obvious) but can I just confirm that the sections shaded green are meant to represent the remaining (majority) Gaelic speaking areas? cheers. siarach (talk) 12:05, 7 January 2009 (UTC)
 * I wasn't being critical of any aspect of the map – I simply wanted to be totally sure of what all the coloured sections meant before I made any use of it myself. I’ll check out Donncha Ó hÉallaithes stuff – I doubt if my very basic comprehension of Gàidhlig na h-Eirinn will comfortably cover the field of linguistics but I’ll give it a shot anyway. I’d been hoping for a map of this sort for ages now and if I had the slightest idea how to put them together I’d have taken a shot at making one myself – it’s nice to see the maximum extent of the Gaelic world for a change rather than the rather sad looking “Gàidhealtachd” remnants we’re stuck with today. siarach (talk) 10:12, 16 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Hey there, just chipping in with one point (sb had already made that one on the image's talk space): isn't the southern limit of Gaelic Scotland a bit too generous? I don't know about Strathclyde and Galloway, but for all I knew, at least Lothian and the Borders more or less went directly from Cumbrian to Anglo-Saxon. Trigaranus (talk) 22:37, 5 June 2009 (UTC)

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Irish Place Name Template
Hi, many thanks for providing the Irish translations to a number of places. Did you know that a specific template exists -. If the "translate=no" option is used, it is then automatically included in a category of untranslated place named. --HighKing (talk) 19:02, 5 April 2009 (UTC)

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Ireland vs Northern Ireland
Because The Republic of Ireland is a different country and entity from Northern Ireland which is part of the UK. If you simply say Ireland people are drawn to the indication that this is the Republic of Ireland as eople commonly refer to that as Ireland and the part which belongs to the UK as "Northern Ireland". If it was such a simple matter as you call the whole island "Ireland" then there wouldn't be two different countries. As the road is in Northern Ireland then the title should imply this. For instance Gerry Adams is a "Northern Irish" politician not an "Irish politician". It would be like claiming in the title Kim Jong il is a South Korean politician. It's politicially incorrect! Dr. Blofeld       White cat 17:59, 19 April 2009 (UTC)

Personally I'd rather the whole island was just "The Republic of Ireland" and completely belonged to Ireland. Not sure what your view is on that? Dr. Blofeld       White cat 18:04, 19 April 2009 (UTC)

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Repartition of Ireland map
Hi, I'd be interested in knowing where you obtained religious statistics for individual areas of Co. Donegal (as I've been unable to do so). Would you be able to give me a link, or some thing? Thanks. Uisce (talk) 16:52, 20 April 2009 (UTC)

Wow -- Great work. Thanks. Uisce (talk) 15:32, 25 April 2009 (UTC)

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Number plates
I've removed the image of the IRL plates on the UK number plate article as these are not legal in the UK - check the references for confirmation of what is and what isn't and you'll find that the ENG/CYM/SCO/WALES/UK/GB+flag combinations and GB+EU stars badge are indeed road legal in the UK, but IRL in any combination is not.

I often see certain VW 'Dubz' owners find it en-vogue to have Euro Stars/(letter) D plates, but again they're illegal and any vehicle presented at an vehicle test/MOT station displaying such would fail the test. The only country designators which are legal are those detailed in the article; a UK plate with D, IRL, F, PL or any other country designator is illegal in the UK, and even then the ENG/SCO/CYM/WALES/UK+flags combinations are not recognised outside the UK and under UN regs must be accompanied by a GB sticker.

It may be the case that plates with Playboy Bunny badges, Man Utd FC plates, vehicle manufacturer logo badges, other country EU badges, e.g. D or IRL or any other show plate combination might be seen on the roads, but these are unauthorised and might only be worthy of mention in a separate section dealing with non road-legal show plates, vanity plates, etc. A wander around any supermarket or cinema car park will turn up a multitude of illegal combinations therefore if you insist on placing the image back on the article then do so in a different section dealing with illegal combinations and make it clear that such plates are, along with Playboy Bunnies etc., illegal. Any other use of the image will see it removed, again... Stick to verifiable facts, such as IRL not being a road legal side badge on any UK plate. 86.157.230.55 (talk) 14:39, 11 February 2010 (UTC)

Irish place names
Hi, i noticed some of your recent edits in regards to Northern Ireland county ledes and baronies. We currently have an agreed arrangement for the intros over at Wikiproject Ireland. As Irish is unofficial in Northern Ireland and there is no official Irish form in Northern Ireland for counties then the lede will state either a derive tag in the cases of Tyrone, Fermanagh etc. and what the county is name after, i.e. Antrim town or Downpatrick. It was agreed that the Irish form such as Contae Aontroim etc. can be kept in the infobox to show other names.

On baronies, we also have a new agreed Ireland Manual of Style in regards to placenames. Places in Northern Ireland don't have official Irish forms so if a place derives from Irish then the derive tag is used, if it derives from English then the unofficial Irish form is to be placed in the infobox.

In regards to baronies, they by on large do not derive their names from Irish. The baronies of Coleraine and Dungannon and Omagh etc are all derived from their principal town containing their courts, gaols etc. at the time. Places like Tirkennedy and Loughinsholin do have Irish origins however these are expanded upon in their own seperate barony articles. For example Tirkennedy and Tirkeeran. We don't add the Irish form to every instance a settlement is mentioned or even in those lists.

The baronies of Tyrone, Armagh, and Down will soon have their own seperate articles for each barony so please don't revert. Mabuska (talk) 12:08, 9 July 2010 (UTC)

IMOS
From posting above it is clear that the issue addressed at WP:IRE-IRL has previously been brought to your attention. You may benefit from a refresher. RashersTierney (talk) 18:38, 12 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Would the Cork (city) case in question not fall (rather ironically) more in line with that of the Strabane case at WP:IRE-IRL? If the sentence on the article were to read "Cork is a city in Ireland situated in County Cork in the Province of Munster", that would be fine. But there was clearly a comparison made between the two definitions of "Ireland" and "Ireland's second city" ie. island > Belfast or state > Cork. With these two definitions of Ireland being used in the one sentence a destinction must be made. I don't oppose the "island-of" prefix to Ireland, but hacking off "Republic-of" from Ireland is a hacking too far and renders the current wording confusing. This born in mind, I struggle to see how my edit falls out of line with WP:IRE-IRL. Might a compromise be "is the second largest city in the republic of Ireland and the island of Ireland's third most populous city."? D.de.loinsigh (talk) 06:39, 13 January 2012 (UTC)
 * The proximity of the factoid relating to the island does not negate the clear intention behind the IMOS recommendation. It should probably be moved. Feel free to take up at the IMOS discussion page. RashersTierney (talk) 09:42, 14 January 2012 (UTC)

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