Is glas iad na cnoic i bhfad uainn
Faraway hills are green · Iss glos ee-ad nah knick ih wod oo-in
Is glas iad na cnoic i bhfad uainn means Faraway hills are green, and is said Iss glos ee-ad nah knick ih wod oo-in.
Word for word
Taken literally it reads Are green they the hills far from us. Irish often puts a sentence together differently from English, so the literal reading rarely matches the meaning.
How to say it
Say it Iss glos ee-ad nah knick ih wod oo-in, written the way an English speaker would read it.
When you’d say it
The Irish for the grass is always greener, and a sharper version of it, because in Ireland the hills really are green and still look better from a distance.
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