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Chaith mé roinnt urchar ina threo. I fired a few shots in his direction. Assuming I have a really bad aim, then the bullets were wasted, even if the putitive victim, in American gangster parlance, was not.

[Seosamh]

Rinne mé dearmad ar an tabac agus, ar ndóigh, substaintí eile nach é.

[Seosamh]

If you want just one equivalent English word to translate the Irish word “caith”, then consider the word “consume”. Therefore people “consume” such things as money, clothes, drink, food, time, stones and bullets (in so far as they consume the energy of stones and bullets when they throw or fire them!).

[Seosamh]

Maybe there is a relationship between “ciste” and “císte”.
“Ciste” meaning a “fund” etc. ie. “a store of money” and “císte” meaning a “cake” etc. ie. “a store of calories”.

[Seosamh]

Difficult to know. Maybe a “cáca” is more associated with something like a wedding cake or a birthday cake something in the confectionary line and a “císte” is more traditional like an oaten cake or wheaten cake.

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Maybe “Tá an cruth sin orainn go léir anseo” translating as “we’re all that shape here” followed perhaps by an embarrased little laugh.

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There was a republican paramilitary organisation back in the sixties known as “Saor Éire”. I always understood it as “Free Ireland” “free” being an adjective. In Irish the adjective usually comes after the noun but in certain circumstances it can come before the noun. Any opinions anyone?

[Seosamh]

I understood that the Irish word “rince” and the English words “rink” and “ring” are all connected. They all refer to the action of somehow going around in a ring, as in dancing, skating etc. So I reckon both “rince” and “damhsa” are loan words.

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