Táim ag blagadóireacht
A wee while ago, Sinéad over at Sigla sent me a link to a piece on Irish language podcast blog An tImeall on Cócaireacht agus Filíocht (Cooking and Poetry). My prowess as gaeilge not being what it should be, I had to get a friend to translate it for me – many thanks to the Schoolteacher – and am finally able to appreciate Conn’s kind words.
There’s a link to the page here or, for my non-Irish readers, a couple of paragraphs translated below. Isn’t the Irish word for blogging – ag blagadóireacht – absolutely gorgeous? Compliments like these just might be the way to encourage me to improve my Irish.
…Seod-bhlag atá sa tsuíomh bibliocook.com. Éireannach mná atá ina bhun, Caroline Hennessy, agus mar a shílfeá ón dteideal, cuireann sí suim ar leith, ní amháin sa chócaireacht, ach i leabhair chócaireachta ach go h-áirithe. Tá sí ag blagadóireacht le bliain anois, agus chaith sí leath na tréimhse sin ina cónaí sa Nua-Shéalainn.
Bibliocook is a gem of a site. An Irish woman, Caroline Hennessy, founded it, and as can be seen from the title, she has a lot of interest not only in cooking, but in cookery books especially. She is blogging for a year now and she spent half of this time living in New Zealand.
Mar aon leis na blaganna is fearr ar ábhar ar bith, tá eolas cuimsitheach agus paisean aici don ábhar, ach cuireann sí leis an méid sin lena pearsantacht agus lena tuairimí féin. Is cúntas pearsanta é blag ar bith, is cuma cén t-ábhar, agus is cúntas taistil é cuid mhaith de Bibliocook chomh maith, ina dtugann an t-údar dúinn léargas, ní amháin ar bhia na Nua-Shéalainne agus na hÉireann ach ar chultúr agus ar nósanna na dtíortha agus ar an gcodarsnacht eatarthu. Insíonn sí na h-eachtraí beaga a bhaineann le gach scéal, agus tugann sí comhtheács don mbia…
As with any of the best blogs on any subject, she has expert knowledge and a passion for the subject, but she adds to this with her personality and her own ideas. Any blog is a personal account, no matter what subject, and a good part of Bibliocook is a travel diary as well, where the author gives us a description, not only of the food of New Zealand and Ireland but on the culture and customs of the countries and the comparisons between them. She tells the little events that go with each story, and she gives a context for the food.
Read more here.
