A chara, – Your correspondent (“Thinking Anew”, November 21st) puts forward a very eccentric translation for Rí na nDúil’ [sic], rendering it “the guide of good desire”.
The word dúil here is not that meaning – “desire” – but rather another well-attested lexical item meaning “element, being, creature” and in plural “all created things”.
The well-known phrase “Rí na nDúl” reflects the article of the Nicene creed which refers to the “creator of all things visible and invisible”.
– Yours, etc,
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LIAM P Ó MURCHÚ
Department of Modern
Irish,
University College, Cork.