Vocabulary in Translations

An informal, often outdoor or makeshift school that operated in Ireland during British rule, teaching subjects in Irish when official education was suppressed or unavailable.

Unable to walk properly due to a physical disability or injury affecting the legs or feet.

Unable to speak, either from birth or due to a condition that prevents the production of speech.

Extending back so far in time that no one can remember or record the beginning; from time beyond memory.

Assumed or put forward as a fixed, established fact or truth, especially as the basis for an argument or belief.

To continue to exist or survive over a long period, often in the face of difficulty or change.

An official British government project to produce detailed, standardised maps of Ireland, requiring the systematic recording and anglicisation of all place names.

Converting Irish-language words, especially place names, into English-sounding equivalents, often altering or destroying their original meaning.

The official register used by the Ordnance Survey team to record Irish place names alongside their newly assigned English versions.

Relating to the making of maps, including the surveying, recording, and drawing of geographical features and place names.

The wholeness and authenticity of a community's inherited language, customs, and identity, which can be damaged when outsiders rename or redefine its world.

Of little importance or significance; used here to dismiss a place name as too minor to deserve careful preservation.

A sign or event believed to foretell something that will happen in the future, either good or bad.

A person who translates spoken words between two languages in real time, enabling people who speak different languages to communicate.

Filled with love or deep admiration for someone or something, to the point of being captivated or enchanted by them.

The legal or forcible removal of people from their homes or land, used here as a military threat against an Irish community.

A small, traditional Irish land division, the most local unit of territory, typically covering a few hundred acres and carrying a Gaelic name.

Relating to the language, culture, and traditions of the indigenous Irish people, particularly the Irish language spoken in communities like Baile Beag.

Expressing deep feeling in a beautiful, song-like way; used to describe the tender, poetic quality of the love scene between two characters.

Feeling or expressing deep sadness and grief, especially over something lost or beyond recovery.

An epic Latin poem by the Roman poet Virgil, telling the story of Aeneas after the fall of Troy; recited here as a symbol of a classical education now becoming irrelevant.

The complete dying out or disappearance of a language, culture, or way of life, leaving nothing behind.

A state-run school established under British policy in Ireland from 1831, teaching entirely through English and designed to replace informal Irish-language education.