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The first time I saw D O'G, I asked my mother what a bean sí was. She thought a minute and suggested that perhaps they were saying "bad sheet". So I pictured someone dressed up as a ghost, in a ratty old sheet.

Brigid_CloverMoon wrote:I don't remember a bean sí in Darby O' Gill at all. I'll have to go watch that again now....

She's near the end, when Darby's daughter falls off of the hill.

I haven't seen the movie in a long time, I remember alot of leprechauns jumping about.

mhwombat wrote:The first time I saw D O'G, I asked my mother what a bean sí was. She thought a minute and suggested that perhaps they were saying "bad sheet". So I pictured someone dressed up as a ghost, in a ratty old sheet.

Ah! Shíl mé gurbh as an Ghaeltacht duit de dhúchais?!

Brigid_CloverMoon wrote:I haven't seen the movie in a long time, I remember alot of leprechauns jumping about.

That was the funniest part!! When they all started dancing around really fast. I almost peed my pants!!

Conor wrote:

mhwombat wrote:The first time I saw D O'G, I asked my mother what a bean sí was. She thought a minute and suggested that perhaps they were saying "bad sheet". So I pictured someone dressed up as a ghost, in a ratty old sheet.

Ah! Shíl mé gurbh as an Ghaeltacht duit de dhúchais?!

Ní hea, is as L.A. ó dhuchas mé. Tá mé anseo le cuig bliana anuas.

Is Poncán thú

Conor wrote:Is Poncán thú

Who lives close enough to pay you a little visit with a brown paper bag of Alpaca poop!! 'Member dat!!

Enjoy it for what it is: a children's movie made in 1959. So it has a stereotypical view of Ireland from an American perspective. Like others I was scared by the bean sí. Of course I was nine years old in 1959. Check out Sean Connery in a pre-James Bond role.

JSmith13 wrote:

Conor wrote:Is Poncán thú

Who lives close enough to pay you a little visit with a brown paper bag of Alpaca poop!! 'Member dat!!

I do have quantites of the stuff to spare!