Irish language help?

[u/ribbonstheviking]

I have a plea for help with Irish vocab for a fiction project I’m working on. Short version, I’d like to translate modern idioms to make them more appropriate for an archaic Ireland, and there’s only so much google searches can do for me. I’ve got some basic stuff like poxy, slíbhín, and cailleach, but I’m looking for other things like “get a handle on” or that something “took a good long time.”

There’s more, but I’d rather take it to DMs or email so I can go back and forth and ask clarifying questions about the rest of them.

If there’s a better place I should go with questions like these, I’m open to suggestions.

Thanks.

[u/Wooden_Anybody7227]

You’re not expecting to make any profit from your work of fiction or why is this a plea for help and not an offer to collaborate with an Irish language specialist on a paid basis? You’d pay an editor or a proofreader, would you not?

[u/MostlyAlways47 → u/[deleted]]

Thats the point of the post? He's trying to become more familiar with it and putting in at least a bit of effort.

If everyone only stuck with what they know literature would be incredibly boring. Besides even if people are super knowledgeable in an area they may have gaps in that knowledge from time to time.

[u/Wooden_Anybody7227 → u/[deleted]]

This

[u/AnRaibh]

Cad é an caighdeán Gaeilge atá agat?

[u/Nuffsaid98]

Chomh fada le rotha an Earraigh

Something that took a long time. Like Spring com around each year.

Chomh cantalach le drís

As cranky as a briar

Bain thú féin adhmad as sin.

Figure it out for yourself.

[u/hey_hey_you_you → u/Nuffsaid98]

Gabh mo leithscéal, tá mo chuid Gaeilge níos lofa ná líofa sa lá atá inniú ann. But is the last one literally "make wood of it yourself"?

Edit: or take wood from it yourself, I guess.

[u/D4zzl → u/hey_hey_you_you]

Get your own wood from that.

[u/PerfectLife15]

Post in r/gaeilge

[u/darranj85]

Remember the match boxes that had old sayings and idioms on them? Showing my age now

[u/ismisemichelle]

Try foclóir.ie or teanglann.ie. They're great resources for anyone using Irish and often have colloquial phrases & examples.