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help with Gaelic...

posted 13 years ago by Corrette
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Just wondering if some Gaelic-speaking reader could kindly post the (almost) final lines of the film, when Brendan gives the immigration officer (?) his expulsion order, and the two of them speak briefly in Gaelic.
Unlike the earlier scene in which Brendan teaches some rudimentary Gaelic to Liz, the meaning of the dialogue is here not entirely clear from the context(subtitles would have been useful), even though I guess the older man is saying something like 'Welcome home!'

[–] ashaodoherty 10 years ago

(I know you posted that question four years ago, but seeing as no one has replied...)

I think the official says "Ta failte romhat a bhuchaill" (Welcome boy). To which Brendan replies "Go raibh maith agat" (Thank you).

I suppose they didn't provide subtitles because it was only a greeting and also because it's not really about what's being said, it's the fact that they're talking in their mother tongue.

(Sorry that answer wasn't worth waiting four years for).