Irish Translation Forum

It’s been a while since I have been here, but we’d like to ask for your help again. My wife and I are just getting ready to erect a headstone on our baby’s grave and we would like to get the following line inscribed on it in Irish. Any help given would be very much appreciated.
Thank you

Our love will fly to you each night on angel’s wings

I'm very sorry for your loss.

kilmegan wrote:Our love will fly to you each night on angel’s wings

Eitlóidh ár ngrá chugat chuile oíche ar sciatháin aingeal.


Wait for confirmation.
Some people here can be very touchy about being corrected.
Not like in the old days when we were glad of it.

Couple of revisions needed there liza.

Gealún wrote:Couple of revisions needed there liza.

Tell me please O Wise One

This would be how I would start this sentence...

Eitleoidh ár gcion ........

And this is how I would end it...

....chugat.

I would also write the in-between bits a wee bit differently.

Just spit it out and don't leave the grieving man waiting.

I'm not offering a translation, I'm offering a couple of wee correction to yours, liza.
The differences in the middle bit would be more dialectical than anything else.
I too am sorry for your loss kilmegan and I'm also sorry I can't offer you a translation of my own, in this case, I have to rely on others to come up with the original idea for the translation.

Eitlóidh is a typo it should be Eitleoidh.
I think cion is more appropriate than grá for the love of a child here.
And finally I think chugat should be more towards the end of the sentence.

Eitleoidh ár gcion le sciatháin aingeal gach oíche chugat.

Since Angel's is written as singular in the request..maybe aingil would would be a more direct translation? Picky I know...

Beidh ár ngrá duitse chuile lá is oíche, tusa i measc i measc na n-aingeal
Our love will be for you every day and night, you are amid the angels




To have lost a child, I have no words, the worst thing in life
I know this is not what you wanted translated, but it sounds good in Irish
But await more imput

Bodhránbob wrote:Since Angel's is written as singular in the request..maybe aingil would would be a more direct translation?