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Tanned people out West

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    #32
    fontanalis
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,619 ✭✭✭fontanalis


    Crazy specualtion; the Irish for foreigner is gal. Any link to Galicia.


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    #33
    charlemont
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    spent months thinking my neighbour was from the Mediterranean , actually she from west kerry , right by the sea, some colour on her,( some hole on her too )

    friend of mine from angola , spent years in cork city, then went to bantry , he came back to cork telling me the irish have a different colour skin in bantry..:pac:


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    #34
    brianthebard
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    fontanalis wrote: »
    Crazy specualtion; the Irish for foreigner is gal. Any link to Galicia.

    Irish dictionary says no. http://www.irishdictionary.ie/dictionary


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    #35
    fontanalis
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,619 ✭✭✭fontanalis


    brianthebard wrote: »
    Irish dictionary says no. http://www.irishdictionary.ie/dictionary

    When I type in Gall (as in Dun na ngall/Donegal meaning fort of the foreigner) it says Brit.


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    #36
    fontanalis
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,619 ✭✭✭fontanalis


    charlemont wrote: »
    spent months thinking my neighbour was from the Mediterranean , actually she from west kerry , right by the sea, some colour on her,( some hole on her too )

    friend of mine from angola , spent years in cork city, then went to bantry , he came back to cork telling me the irish have a different colour skin in bantry..:pac:

    West Cork primarily around Mount Gabriel was important during the Bronze Age for mining and there was suppsoed to be some trading with Northern Spain.


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    #37
    MarchDub
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    fontanalis wrote: »
    When I type in Gall (as in Dun na ngall/Donegal meaning fort of the foreigner) it says Brit.

    Yeah...the Brits have always been full of gall. Thought everyone knew that. :)


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