Irish Translation Forum

I need the following phrase translated as soon as possible. It's for my H.S. Senior Prefect "will" in teh year book. Thanks so much.
" To those who've gone before me, I love you. To those who follow behind me, Learn to love me."

I am-Tá mé
I will be-Beidh mé
I was-bhí mé

I am not-níl mé
I will not be-ní bheidh mé
I was not-ní raibh mé

Am I?-an bhuil mé?
Will I be?an mbeidh mé?
Would I be?an mbeinn?

Hope this helps

Actually it didn't all that much, I know Graím tú is "i love you" But i need help formulating teh whoel sentence. I'm a terribe irish speaker/grammer-er ( thats a word, I swear) ANd i've no idea how to translate it.

Sorry

before = roimh ;roimhe
learn = foghlaim

Iad siúd a chuaigh roimhainn, táim I ngrá libh. Dóibh siúd a dtiofaidh í mo niadh, tabhair grá dhom.

OR


Iad siúd a chuaigh romhain, táim I ngrá libh. Dóibh siúd a dtiofaidh í mo niadh, foghlaim mé a ghrá.

"This does not sound right to me, would stick with the first one"



+ My spelling is not the best, SO WAIT for other posts.

Oisín,
Your spelling is cat!

Here's my version:

Sibhse a chuaigh romham, mo ghrá daoibh. Dóibh siúd ata ag teacht i mo dhiaidh, foghlaigí mé a ghrá.

Thank you so much, you all are very helpful. Is there any chance that someone could write that out phonetically, particularly the first sentence, I'm hung up on some of it. Thanks again. Slán!

It's not really possible to do that with the English alphabet, I could only give you a rough idea of how it sounds and it will sound awful. With that caveat, here you are:

SHIVE-sheh A HOO-ee ROH-um, MUH GRAW JEEV. THOUGH-iv SHOOD ATHAW EGG CHOCKTH IH MUH YEE-a, FOH-liggy MAY AH GRAW.

Actually, it might not sound too bad. No worse than the Pope's efforts anyway.

Slán,

Ailill.

What's this about the pope's efforts? I'm starting to feel sorry for that man.
Slán

At easter in his Urbi et Orbi (to the city and to the world) address he reads out happy Easter in hundreds of languages, including Irish gaelic.