HIT: Erin Go Bragh

[Diane Chen <ChenD@TEN-NASH.TEN.K12.TN.US>]

Thanks to everyone for responding. These are some of the most detailed
answers I received.  "Ireland forever" was the consensus.

    It is Irish for " Ireland forever"  Ireland is called Eire in Irish.  A
greeting  that they might want to learn is "Caed Mile Failte"  (cad mile-ah
fault-ah is how my Aunt Josie taught me to pronounce it) which means "a
Hundred thousand welcomes"

Marybeth Bean
marybeth.bean@yale.edu

Erin is the official name for Ireland.  This usage is from the
Research-It webpage.

Main Entry: Erin go bragh
Pronunciation: "er-&n-g&-'bro, -gO-'br=E4
Usage: foreign term
Etymology: Ir go br=E1ch or go br=E1th, lit., till doomsday
: Ireland forever

--
Dale A. Johnson        -            Email: dalej@flandreau.12.sd.us

It means "Ireland forever" ("Erin forever")  -- and is the ancient battle
cry of the Irish.  Source: The Harper Dictionary of Foreign Terms, Third
Edition.

Kenneth W. Umbach, Ph.D., Policy Analyst
E-mail: kumbach@unlimited.net (or kumbach@library.ca.gov)

You might try     http://www.irelandseye.com        I had trouble trying
to get on but it's supposed to have everything you might want to know.

Nancy Lindsay
dh.platt.lib.media@snet net

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