Irish Translation Forum

I just noticed that the NASA Administrator is called Sean O'Keeffe. He isn't Irish by any chance, d'ya think?

He's probably as Irish as Shaquile O'Neil.

Oh, didn't you know that Ireland's full of seven foot tall dark skinned basketball players?

Shaquille O'Neal

Classic, man. Fair play to you!

I read in the paper that the money spent so far in Iraq could have funded a manned mission to Mars....

oisin718 wrote:I read in the paper that the money spent so far in Iraq could have funded a manned mission to Mars....

Mícheart, déarfáinn. Dar leis an mBBC, bhéadh trilliún dollar de dhíth chun duine a chur ar Mars.

Is ón BBC a chuala mise na figiúir sin ar dtús!

Diamhair wrote:He's probably as Irish as Shaquile O'Neil.

I don't know why, but black "Irish" wannabes spell their names to suit their blackness

e.g. O'Neal
O'Brian
O'Coner
O'Tool
McJones

all are real (black) people at my school who probably think Ireland is in the Carribean.

Well, Cromwell shipped hundreds of Irishmen off to slavery in the Carribean--Barbados, Montserrat, etc. Some of them could very well be Irish!

More likely, the owner of the plantation their ancestors were slaves on, forexample, might have had an Irish name.

oisin718 wrote:
More likely, the owner of the plantation their ancestors were slaves on, forexample, might have had an Irish name.

I was just gonna say that.

Yes, I think some of the slaveowners were Irish. Sure wasn't Scarlett O'Hara's father a slaveowner??

BTW, hee hee! NASA's chief spokesman is called Glenn Mahone.