'I've seen—and here's my hand to you I only say what's true—. I went to study medicine at UCD. Asks the blind fiddler. Walsh: very general.
Moore: I flew to her chamber—'twas lonely. There are some consonants of the Irish language which when they come together do not coalesce in sound, as they would in an English word, so that when they are uttered a very short obscure vowel sound is heard between them: and a native Irish speaker cannot avoid this. Ward the grammatical structure of munster irish language. What has happened in Ballyorgan and Kilfinane may be considered a type of what has taken place all over the country. Why it is that the Irish sound is retained before r and not in other combinations—why for instance the Irish people sound the t and d incorrectly in platter and drive [platther, dhrive] and correctly in plate and dive—is a thing I cannot account for. I positively could not bring myself to say, 'Come, it is time now to set out for church': it must be either 'Mass' or 'the chapel. Hayden and Hartog. )
Many and many a time I heard exhortations from that poor altar, sometimes in English, sometimes in Irish, by the Rev. Jaw; impudent talk: jawing; scolding, abusing:—. Is Irish; sál [saul], heel. Meaning "bald" or "tonsured". Another form of wisha, and both anglicised from the Irish má'seadh, used in Irish in much the same sense. However, in Connacht there is the following construction with a special form of the verbal noun: Bhí sé ag cinnt orm (rud a dhéanamh) meaning 'I could not (do something), I was unable (to do something)', i. I was overpowered by the task, I couldn't do it. Ward the grammatical structure of munster irish bread. It has found its way even into our nursery rhymes; as when a mother is dancing her baby up and down on her knee, she sings:—. In Irish God is often designated an Fear suas or an t-É suas ('the Man above, ' 'the Person above'): thus in Hardiman's 'Irish Minstrelsy' (I. 'The three black cuts will be levied. ' Crawtha; sorry, mortified, pained. ) Coaches: Peter Scott (head), Paul Barr, Enda Ronan, Darren Sexton, Marian Carey (conditioning) and Steve Forde. 'I'm king of Munster when I'm in the bog, and the pillibeens whistling about me. ') See Drogh for Ulster. A person asks me for money: I give him all I have, which is less than he asked for:—'That is all [the corn] there's threshed.
Drogh; the worst and smallest bonnive in a litter. ) Said jokingly of a person with very big feet:—He wasn't behind the door anyway when the feet were giving out. 'Touchstone' in 'Daily Mail. 'If my child was standing anear that stone. ') Banshee´; a female fairy: Irish bean-sidhe [banshee], a 'woman from the shee or fairy-dwelling. ' It is a masculine noun ( an spliúchán, genitive an spliúcháin, plural na spliúcháin, genitive plural na spliúchán). 'Oh but mother, sure the grace of God hasn't a long tail. A fellow boasting says:—'I could run ten miles in an hour': and another replies, 'You could inah': meaning 'Of course I don't believe a word of it. ' Irish caedh [quay], for which and for the names derived from it, see 'Irish Names of Places': II. Ward does not accept the verdict of the jury and continues to maintain his innocence. Both very common exclamations in case of danger. One morning as he was going very late to business, one of his neighbours, a Quaker, met him. His lines for to retire. Philip Nolan on the Leaving Cert: ‘I had an astonishing array of spare pens and pencils to ward off disaster’ –. This is like what happened in the case of one of our servant girls who took it into her head that {94}mutton was a vulgar way of pronouncing the word, like pudden' for pudding; so she set out with her new grand pronunciation; and one day rather astonished our butcher by telling him she wanted a small leg of mutting.
Wet and dry; 'Tom gets a shilling a day, wet and dry'; i. constant work and constant pay in all weathers. A Dublin boy asked me one day:—'Maybe you wouldn't have e'er a penny that you'd give me, sir? ' This is a translation of the Irish form do tharraing me anuas 'I drew down. She struggled to get up, but failed. In the old mail-car days there was an inn on the road from Killarney to Mallow, famous for scolsheen, where a big pot of it was always kept ready for travellers. Mr. Joyce, you have a fine voca-bull´ery. 'Whisper' in this usage is simply a translation of cogar [cogger], and 'whisper here' of cogar annso; these Irish words being used by Irish speakers exactly as their dialectical English equivalents are used in English: the English usage being taken from the Irish. How to say Happy New Year in Irish. Donagh-dearnagh, the Sunday before Lammas (1st August). )
Tothlú 'to crave, to desire' – not that this is particularly common in Connacht either, but I have only seen it in Connacht literature – in Colm Ó Gaora's autobiography Mise, which is basically Ros Muc Irish. He took up the book; but seeing the owner suddenly appear, he dropped it like a hot potato. A Shakespearian survival:—Prospero:—'Go bring the rabble. Ward the grammatical structure of munster irish dance. ' For is constantly used before the infinitive: 'he bought cloth for to make a coat. 'Threatened dogs live long. ' The given name Cúcharraige. But one time he tilted the shell too much, and down went the whole contents. 'I wouldn't doubt you, ' answers the mother, as much as to say, 'It is just what I'd expect from you.
To a person who habitually uses unfortunate blundering expressions:—'You never open your mouth but you put your foot in it. Call; custom in business: Our new shopkeeper is getting great call, i. his customers are numerous. A man has got a heavy cold from a wetting and says: 'That wetting did me no good, ' meaning 'it did me great harm. The old blind piper is the happiest of all, and holding up his glass says:—'Here's, if this be war may we never have peace. ' As far as I know, these are not used outside Ulster. —The works of Irish writers of novels, stories, and essays depicting Irish peasant life in which the people are made to speak in dialect. If a person magnifies the importance of any matter and talks as if it were some great affair, the other will reply:—'Oh, you're making great bones about it.
This is from a very old Gaelic usage, as may be seen from this quotation from the 'Boroma':—Coire mór uma í teigtís dá muic déc: 'A large bronze caldron {54}into which would go (téigtís) twelve [jointed] pigs. I was one of the very few who attempted the double work of learning both science and classics. 'There's plenty of fear, madam, but no danger. Albanach is of course a Scotsman, but in Ulster it is felt to mean, above all, an Ulster Protestant. John is in tow with Jane Sullivan.