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- "Tá im agam."
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Both the Munster and Connacht examples on teanglann.ie use the long "eem" pronunciation.
I also learned to pronounce im "as written (i.e. "ihm"), and I don't plan to change that, but I guess I need to learn to recognize "eem" when I hear other people say it.
"butter" is usually considered a "mass noun" in English, so it is not used with an indefinite article.
As SatharnPHL said, since "butter" is a substance, it is treated as a mass noun rather than a count noun. As such, it only takes the indefinite article when it's divided into units, such as "a stick of butter" or "a pat of butter". Really, the indefinite article refers to the unit rather than the substance.