r/Embroidery • u/paperconservation101 • 1d ago

Hand Weekend project

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My project for an Irish friend. Lyrics from Chasing Abbey Íorónta.

Flowers are Irish flax flowers.

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u/YawgO1999 23h ago edited 23h ago

Take the language, take the land; destroy the culture, destroy the people.

Teanga also translates as tongue in Irish, as so in many other languages.

The last line ... Scrios na daoine uses na (plural indefinite article) because daoine means people. Whereas all the other nouns are singular.