Lá na nAmadán sona daoibh go léir!

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I wanted to say that here it's the day of the fish - children attach (usually with a piece of sticky tape) a paper fish, that they're carefully drawn, coloured in and cut out, onto someone's back - often an adult such as their teacher, who isn't supposed to notice and so then they can shout out 'Poisson d'avril!' just to make sure that you do. Last year the 1st of April fell on a day I happened to be working with children, so I had a fair harvest of them. It's something to do with the sign of the Zodiac - Pisces, I think.
Is an lá an éisc anseo sa Fhrainc (or should it be? - Is an lá na n-éisc - if someone could explain it, please)

Is é Lá na nIasc é anseo sa Fhrainc
Lá na nIasc atá ann anseo sa Fhrainc

but children won't stick fish at their schoolmates' backs today since it's sunday

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

GRMA a chara - but that doesn't stop them from buying chocolate fish (it's getting near Easter)

I have a question about the name. Should it be hyphenated? I never know about those hyphens.......

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Hyphen with lower case; no hyphen with upper case:

tír na n-óg

Tír na nÓg

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Múinteoir Gaeilge - Irish Teacher
My "specialty" is Connemara Irish, particularly Cois Fhairrge dialect, but I can also speak Ulster and Munster Irish with native-level pronunciation.
Is fearr Gaeilge ḃriste ná Béarla cliste, cinnte, aċ i ḃfad níos fearr aríst í Gaeilge ḃinn ḃeo na nGaeltaċtaí.
Gaeilge Chonnacht (GC), go háraid Gaeilge Chois Fhairrge (GCF), Gaeilic Uladh (GU), Gaelainn na Mumhan (GM), agus Gaeilge an Chaighdeáin Oifigiúil (CO).

Grma!

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Prefixed t and prefixed n must be hyphenated before a lowercase letter in order to avoid ambiguity.

an t-éad / an téad

ár n-athair / ár nathair


Prefixed h is another matter because (other than loan words) the h would obviously be prefixed since words didn't traditionally start with h.

I was wondering about that too - GRMA and when do you use na instead of an for the genitive?

na - feminine, an - masculine
Others will be able to explain it properly with examples, but I wanted to show I knew that little bit....

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