Maith go leor. Ach daoine go leor? Creidim thú a Bhreandáin. Táim thar nais agus baochas

Céad míle fáilte romhat ar ais, a Rossaí.


Tá roinnt samplaí mar "daoiní go leor" in "The Irish of Iorras Aithneach County Galway" le Brian Ó Curnáin, freisin.

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My "specialty" is Connemara Irish, particularly Cois Fhairrge dialect, but I can also speak Ulster and Munster Irish with native-level pronunciation.
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Gaeilge Chonnacht (GC), go háraid Gaeilge Chois Fhairrge (GCF), Gaeilic Uladh (GU), Gaelainn na Mumhan (GM), agus Gaeilge an Chaighdeáin Oifigiúil (CO).

Well the sense of this is grammatically clear, I think.

Basically if go leor comes first the noun is in the genitive:

fir go leor = enough men (nominative plural)
go leor fear = enough (of) men (genitive plural)

So, when you want to use it with a verbal noun like ithe or déanamh, then go leor comes first
and déanamh and ithe must be put in their genitives: déanta and ite.

go leor déanta = enough of doing
go leor ite = enough of eating

It's found in the works of most Munster Authors as well (see Allagar na hInise for some examples).

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The dialect I use is Cork Irish.
Ar sgáth a chéile a mhairid na daoine, lag agus láidir, uasal is íseal

In SG, gu leòr is traditionally pretty much always after the thing it qualifies, and I think that's a pretty conservative rule (cf "(whatever) galore" in English). You'll hear it the other way round often enough, but I think it's considered "Beurlach".

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To me, these aren't verbal nouns in the genitive, but simply verbal adjectives: enough (has been) done/eaten

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Is fearr Gaeilg na Gaeltaċta ná Gaeilg ar biṫ eile
Agus is í Gaeilg Ġaoṫ Doḃair is binne

You're probably right Lughaidh. I guess the way to know is to take one of the verbal nouns whose genitive isn't the verbal adjective.
Like Cuardach or Faire, I can't think of a natural sounding phrase to put them in though.

go leor cuardaigh/cuardaithe = enough has been searched (???)

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The dialect I use is Cork Irish.
Ar sgáth a chéile a mhairid na daoine, lag agus láidir, uasal is íseal