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

Ronnie_Rotten · 2012-04-29 17:27:41

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…

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29-04-2012 6:27pm

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Ronnie_Rotten

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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 29-04-2012 9:12pm
P. Breathnach

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

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