A reader (commenting on my post about Irish cuisine): “Call me a stickler,
but shouldn’t that be ‘ceilidh’?”
My response: “Probably. Irish spelling is not my strong point.”
All I can tell you is that it SOUNDS like “ceili” (rhymes with “daily”).
And “h” after a consonant in Irish very often renders that consonant silent.
But Irish spelling is a nightmare — even worse than English. Do you know
the proper Irish spelling of the surname “O’Flaherty”? It’s “O
Flaithbheartaigh” (I think). I rest my case.