Focal an Lae: Ciúnas

Saturday, 10 October 2026

Ciúnas (KYOO-nas) is the Irish for silence, quiet.

What a teacher calls for across a classroom, and what you go to the hills for. Ciúnas gan uaigneas is the ideal: quiet without loneliness.

Other days

Smidirín, the day before · Bodhrán, the day after

A new Irish word every morning, 386 of them in the round, with the feast days of the Irish year keeping their own. Today’s word. More in the phrases, the names and the place names.