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translation required, is this a joke on the owners?!?

  • 29-04-2012 5:27pm
    #1
    Ronnie_Rotten
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28 ✭


    hey all. there is a plaque on the wall of a thatched cottage owned by an american couple near us. now i know they got shafted when they had the roof thatched, i wondered if the mickey taking extended to the plaque, too....

    it reads 'fhíon barra di dean'

    i have no irish, so i tried to translate one word at time using an online dictionary

    fhíon: seems to relate to wine, grapes, or winemaking

    barra: bar

    di dean (or rather dideanai): refugee

    so 'wine bar refugee' then? an odd inscription for a holiday cottage. maybe a traditional saying i havn't heard of?!?

    any help would be appreciated


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  • #2
    P. Breathnach
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,089 ✭✭✭✭P. Breathnach


    It looks to me more like erroneous Irish than mickey-taking. Fionnbarra do dhéan is Irish for "made by Finbarr".


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