As someone who is trying to improve my spoken Irish, the more one learns, the more one realises the different rules for ‘úru’ and ‘séimhu’ and others makes it a difficult task.
As I understand a ‘h’ follows the first consonant when:
- The word is preceeded by ‘An’, and
- The first consonant is b, c, f, g, m or p
If I only paid more attention all those decades ago……