Irish Translation Forum

Would someone please find it in there kind loving hearts to translate the following into irish/gaelic for a tattoo in tribute to a fallen loved one?
"Drink to the dead all you still alive we shall join them in good time should you go crossing that silvery brook its best to leap before you look"
Thank you so much to all those who can help me out with this.
Cheers.-Baub

This doesn't rhyme and is not terribly poetic, but it's what you asked for:

Drink to the dead, all you still alive.
we shall join them in good time
should you go crossing that silvery brook
its best to leap before you look"


Ólaigí do na mairbh, sibhse atá beo fós
Beimid leosan faoi cheann trátha bhig
Dá rachfá trasna na habhann airgid sin
B’fhearr dhuit a léim sula bhféachann tú

erm..... thanks

hows 'bout

Ólaigí do na mairbh, sibhse atá fós beo
Os i gcionn tamaill bhig - beimid leo
Dá rachfá trasna na habhann airgid siúid
B’fhearr dhuit a léim sula bhféachann tú

Good idea, Pól. A little more tweaking:

Ólaigí do na mairbh, sibhse atá fós beo
Ós i gcionn tamaill bhig a bheimid leo
Dá mbeifeá chun an abhainn a thrasnú
B’fhearr dhuit a léim sula bhféachann tú

Tightening it up a little more, and we have complete rhyme and a reasonable meter!

Do you know what it is

The Irish versions of some of the translations here end up 100 times better than the original English

hheheee

btw Oisín I was trying to use the word

Os

as in Os rud é

I probably got it wrong - but that was my idea

Oh! I thought maybe your finger slipped for "Is." I fixed it above.

thanks you guys for taking the time out to translate this text . Much gratitude to you.-Bob

hows about a phonetic pronunciation for the Gaelic-ly challenged?
Am I askin for too much?