An Irish-English Dictionary: Being a Thesaurus of Words, Phrases and Idioms of the Modern Irish Language, with Explanations in English

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Patrick Stephen Dinneen
For the Irish texts society by M. H. Gill & son, Limited, 1904 - English language - 803 pages
 

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Page 46 - O'Connell, an excellent Irish scholar, who died some 60 years ago, and the original of whose excellent vocabulary is preserved in the British Museum. Thus: Badb-catha is explained "finnog, a royston crow, a squall crow". "Badb, ie bean sidhe, a female fairy, phantom, or spectre, supposed to be attached to certain families, and to appear sometimes in the form of squall crows, or royston crows". "Macha; ie a royston crow". "Morrighain; ie the great fairy".
Page 265 - On May morning girls discovered the colour of the hair of their future husbands from the shade of colouring of the first...
Page 480 - I wrote to ask Father Dinneen where he got this folklore, and he replied that his version of the story, which is current all over West Munster, was taught him by his mother at home in the neighbourhood of Killarney; but he added that the...
Page 11 - ... a drop observed to fall upon the tombs of certain tyrants, so called from its cankerous corroding what it falls upon.
Page 358 - Every Irish chieftain or personage of note had certain geise peculiar to himself which he must not transgress. These geise had sometimes reference to a code of chivalry - thus Dermot of the Love-spot, when appealed...
Page 495 - ... nasalized, which may have affected the spelling : in any case, the variation o and a does not warrant the conclusion that the names are not closely related. Another well-known Irish name of the same origin is Mongdn. The modern meanings of mong, as given in Dinneen's Dictionary, are : "The mane or crest of a beast ; a beard ; long hair of the head ; a growth of grass, wood, etc. ; hence a grove, a wood, a forest.
Page xx - Edward Martyn, Esq. D. Lynch, Esq., MD Timothy M. Healy, Esq., MP TJ Westropp, Esq. MM Brophy, Esq. Rev. C.
Page 129 - Professional gamblers were very common in Ireland 200 years ago ; they visited the houses of the gentry periodically, and are constantly alluded to by the poets of the period.

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