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15-06-2009 04:22PM

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Stonecutter

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Would anybody know what this means ?

'Níl ceart ag fear ar bith fóir a chur ar fhóras náisiúin '

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#2 15-06-2009 05:16PM

mr chips

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Fóir is a boundary or limit - if you tell someone "Tá tú ag dul thar fóir", it's like saying "you're going over the top" or "you're going overboard".

Depending on the síneadh fada being on the "a" instead of the "o", forás is growth or development. So it's probably "No man has the right to limit the growth of a nation".

Sounds a bit familiar, was it Charles Stewart Parnell?

(...google...)

Yep!

No man has a right to fix the boundary of the march of a nation; no man has a right to say to his country, "Thus far shalt thou go and no further".

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