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Re: Seanfhocail Inquiry: Facta, non verba

michelle — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 15:12:48 GMT

Christin,

When writing the seanfhocal an lae posts I tried really hard to group them, but it proved nightmarish, so I'm afraid I gave up. I found that I started with broad categorisation like Love, Money, Health, but that these soon disintegrated, and often depended on interpretation too. Be great if you could share some of your research findings with us here on the site in due course.

Ádh mór ort,
Michelle

Re: Seanfhocail Inquiry: Facta, non verba

cmulliga — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 19:41:29 GMT

GRMMA, Seano.

Re: Seanfhocail Inquiry: Facta, non verba

seano — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 12:26:06 GMT

Hi Christin, Sorry, I can't really help with the search terms for proverbs but I can certainly help you with facta non verba - ní briathar a dhearbhaíos ach beart. (Not a word which proves but an action)

Seanfhocail Inquiry: Facta, non verba

cmulliga — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 12:14:18 GMT

Hi, I'm new to your site, and I'm doing some research on oral/internet transmission Irish proverbs for a chapter of my dissertation/thesis. First of all, I was wondering if there was any way I could view seanfhocal-an-lae posts by topic/hash tag re: subject/meaning as opposed to date, and second of all, I was wondering if there were any good Irish equivalents to Facta, non verba---deeds, not words.

GRMMA,

Christin Mulligan

Ph.D Candidate/Teaching Fellow

UNC-Chapel Hill