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091.01king of all, Pegger Festy, as soon as the outer layer of stuccko-
–091.01+king, Pegger Festy (Festy King)
–091.01+Slang pegger: a hard drinker
–091.01+Hebrew pegger: corpse, carcass
–091.01+pegger: one who pegs (e.g. stones) [026.36] [072.27] [.11-.12] [.31]
–091.01+piggery: pigs collectively; a sty (Cluster: Pigs)
–091.01+beggar
–091.01+sty (Cluster: Pigs)
–091.01+VI.B.3.053b (r): 'remove outer layer of dirt'
–091.01+stucco: a type of plaster
–091.01+stuck in muck
091.02muck had been removed at the request of a few live jurors,
–091.02+Irish muc: pig (Cluster: Pigs)
091.03declared in a loudburst of poesy, through his Brythonic inter-
–091.03+cloudburst
–091.03+loud outburst
–091.03+VI.B.20.065m (o): 'poesy'
–091.03+Lewis: The Art of Being Ruled 382: (quoting Charles Fourier) 'Poesy and the fine arts are disdained'
–091.03+Archaic poesy: poetry
–091.03+VI.B.14.188n (o): 'P — Brythonic' (dash dittos 'Celts') [.35]
–091.03+Studies, An Irish Quarterly Review, vol. 13, no. 50, 322: Ireland and Wales (review): 'Until recent times the favoured theory has been, briefly, that the Goidels or Q-Celts came to Ireland through Britain, having sojourned in the latter country until the arrival of the Brythonic or P-Celts, who drove them on to the west coasts, whence they hastened over to Ireland' [.35]
–091.03+Brythonic: a branch of the Celtic languages (Welsh, Breton, Cornish), also called P-Celtic, in which the Indo-European 'kw' has mostly changed into a 'p' (Motif: P/Q) [.35]
091.04preter on his oath, mhuith peisth mhuise as fearra bheura muirre
–091.04+English spelt as Irish: 'with best wishes for a very merry Christmas'
–091.04+Irish peist: beast
–091.04+Irish mhuise: indeed, well
–091.04+Irish as fearra: best
091.05hriosmas, whereas take notice be the relics of the bones of the
–091.05+by
–091.05+VI.B.14.044a (o): 'the bones of the boy that was ate by the pig' (Cluster: Pigs)
–091.05+Kinane: St. Patrick 197n: (quoting from The Tripartite Life of Saint Patrick about Saint Patrick's meeting with a chieftain called Ailill and his wife, and their subsequent conversion) 'His wife... said the pigs have eaten our son... Patrick commanded the boy's bones to be collected... The boy was afterwards resuscitated through Patrick's prayers' (Cluster: Pigs)
091.06story bouchal that was ate be Cliopatrick (the sow) princess
–091.06+Irish buachaill: boy
–091.06+by
–091.06+Cliopatrick [508.23]
–091.06+Clio: muse of history
–091.06+Cleopatra (Mark Antony's lover) [.13] [086.13]
–091.06+Patrick (Saint Patrick)
–091.06+pat, sow (Motif: Pat Pig)
–091.06+Joyce: A Portrait V: 'Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow' (Cluster: Pigs)
091.07of parked porkers, afore God and all their honours and king's
–091.07+porker: pig raised for food (Cluster: Pigs)
–091.07+the name 'Timothy' stems from Greek time: honour and Greek theos: god
–091.07+nursery rhyme Humpty Dumpty: 'All the king's horses and all the king's men'
–091.07+one of the original four courts, or benches, of the Four Courts, Dublin (Ireland's main courts building): King's [.19] [.30-.31]
–091.07+(Festy King)
091.08commons that, what he would swear to the Tierney of Dundal-
–091.08+Irish tighearna: lord
–091.08+Dundalk: town, County Louth (Irish Dún Dealgan)
091.09gan or any other Tierney, yif live thurkells folloged him about
–091.09+if
–091.09+(vaudeville story of a black man, accused of stealing chickens, defending himself by saying that they followed him)
–091.09+Turgesius: 9th century Viking invader of Ireland (known by many other similar names, e.g. Thorkel)
–091.09+Old Irish torc caille: forest swine (a term apparently applied in some old Irish texts to a large bonfire, possibly also to the sacred vernal equinox bonfire at Tara; Cluster: Pigs)
–091.09+turkeys
–091.09+(Slang birds: women)
–091.09+followed
–091.09+Irish faológ: seagull
091.10sure that was no steal and that, nevertheless, what was deposited
–091.10+deposed
091.11from that eyebold earbig noseknaving gutthroat, he did not fire
–091.11+Motif: 5 senses (touch missing) [086.32]
–091.11+bold big (Motif: big bad bold)
–091.11+earwig
–091.11+knaving: stealing or deceiving like a knave or rogue
–091.11+cutthroat: a professional murderer; a ruthless person
–091.11+(did not peg a stone) [089.04-.05] [.01]
091.12a stone either before or after he was born down and up to that
–091.12+Motif: up/down
091.13time. And, incidentalising that they might talk about Markarthy
–091.13+Robert Martin: song Killaloe: 'You may talk of Boneyparty You may talk about Ecarte Or any other party And "comment vous portez vous!"' [.13-.15]
–091.13+King Mark
–091.13+Mark Antony: famous 1st century BC Roman politician and general (Cleopatra's lover) [.06] [086.13]
–091.13+Robert Martin: song Enniscorthy: 'Dimetrius O'Flanigan McCarthy'
–091.13+King Arthur
–091.13+Melkarth: the Phoenician god of Tyre, also known as Baal Sur (Lord of Tyre) [.14] [.25]
091.14or they might walk to Baalastartey or they might join the nabour
–091.14+Baal and Astarte: paired sun and moon deities worshipped in the ancient Near East
–091.14+Labour Party
–091.14+neighbour
091.15party and come on to Porterfeud this the sockdologer had the
–091.15+American Slang sockdologer: an exceptional person (in some respect)
091.16neck to endorse with the head bowed on him over his outturned
–091.16+VI.B.14.188l (o): 'endorse *V*'
–091.16+Studies, An Irish Quarterly Review, vol. 13, no. 50, 198: Comments on the Foregoing Article (Thomas F. O'Rahilly): 'In words which I heartly endorse, Dr. MacNeill calls attention to the great disadvantage under which Irish studies labour, namely, the lack of facilities for publication'
091.17noreaster by protesting to his lipreaders with a justbeencleaned
–091.17+nor'easter: northeaster, a wind from the northeast (common to the east coast of the United States); a waterproof coat
–091.17+just been cleaned [.01-.02]
091.18barefacedness, abeam of moonlight's hope, in the same trelawney
–091.18+(barefaced lie)
–091.18+Sunlight Soap: the world's first packaged and branded laundry and household soap, introduced in 1884
–091.18+Sir Jonathan Trelawny: 17th-18th century Cornish bishop (famous and popular for opposing King James II's tolerance of Catholicism)
091.19what he would impart, pleas bench, to the Llwyd Josus and the
–091.19+one of the original four courts, or benches, of the Four Courts, Dublin (Ireland's main courts building): Common Pleas [.07-.08] [.30-.31]
–091.19+please God!
–091.19+Welsh llwydd: president
–091.19+Lord Jesus [.25]
–091.19+VI.B.5.117e (r): 'Jesus & gentleman of jury (12)'
091.20gentlemen in Jury's and the four of Masterers who had been all
–091.20+phrase gentlemen of the jury (addressing members of a jury)
–091.20+Jurys Inn: a chain of hotels in Ireland and the United Kingdom
–091.20+Motif: The four of them (*X*)
–091.20+Annals of the Four Masters (*X*)
091.21those yarns yearning for that good one about why he left
–091.21+Colloquial yarns: stories, tales (especially long and wondrous ones)
–091.21+years
091.22Dublin, that, amreeta beaker coddling doom, as an Inishman was
–091.22+Motif: alphabet sequence: ABCD
–091.22+amreeta: immortal, ambrosial (from Sanskrit amrita: immortal)
–091.22+Irish inis: island (pronounced 'inish')
–091.22+Inishmaan: the middle island of the Aran islands (where Synge collected much folklore)
–091.22+Irishman
091.23as good as any cantonnatal, if he was to parish by the market steak
–091.23+French canton natal: native canton, district
–091.23+continental
–091.23+perish
–091.23+Giordano Bruno was burned at the stake, on 17 February 1600, in the Campo de' Fiori, Rome (which has been a daily marketplace since 1869, with a statue of Bruno at its centre since 1889)
–091.23+Thomas Moore: Irish Melodies: song Thee, Thee, Only Thee: 'The dawning of morn' [air: The Market-Stake]
091.24before the dorming of the mawn, he skuld never ask to see sight or
–091.24+French dormir: to sleep
–091.24+Danish skulde: should
091.25light of this world or the other world or any either world, of Tyre-
–091.25+Light of the World: an epithet of Jesus (from John 8:12 and elsewhere) [.19]
–091.25+Otherworld: a legendary world in many mythologies, including the Irish one
–091.25+any other
–091.25+Irish Tír na nÓg: Land of the Young (the Celtic Otherworld, land of the gods and the afterlife)
–091.25+Tyre: city, Lebanon [.13]
091.26nan-Og, as true as he was there in that jackabox that minute, or
–091.26+jack-in-a-box: a toy consisting of a box from which a figure springs
091.27wield or wind (no thanks t'yous!) the inexousthausthible wassail-
–091.27+Colloquial phrase no thanks to you: despite your lack of support
–091.27+inexhaustible
–091.27+oust: to drive out, throw out (hence, never thrown out)
–091.27+(drinking horn)
091.28horn tot of iskybaush the hailth up the wailth of the endknown ab-
–091.28+tot: a very small drinking vessel (or measure of drink)
–091.28+Latin tot: so many
–091.28+Anglo-Irish usquebaugh: whiskey
–091.28+health
–091.28+wealth
–091.28+unknown
–091.28+German Abgott: idol
091.29god of the fire of the moving way of the hawks with his heroes in
–091.29+The Hawk: an epithet applied to James Stephens, a 19th century Fenian leader
091.30Warhorror if ever in all his exchequered career he up or lave a
–091.30+Valhalla: in Norse mythology, the magnificent hall in which chosen slain heroes spend their glorious afterlife
–091.30+one of the original four courts, or benches, of the Four Courts, Dublin (Ireland's main courts building): Exchequer [.07] [.19] [.31]
–091.30+phrase chequered career: a varied background history, with both good and bad periods
–091.30+phrase up and leave: to leave abruptly
–091.30+(lifted)
–091.30+Greek labe: take!
091.31chancery hand to take or throw the sign of a mortal stick or stone
–091.31+one of the original four courts, or benches, of the Four Courts, Dublin (Ireland's main courts building): Chancery [.07] [.19] [.30]
–091.31+Chancery hand: the name of several different styles of handwriting used for business transactions from the middle ages onwards (for example, English Chancery hand)
–091.31+nursery rhyme Sticks and Stones: 'Sticks and stones may break my bones' (Motif: tree/stone)
091.32at man, yoelamb or salvation army either before or after being
–091.32+
091.33puptised down to that most holy and every blessed hour. Here,
–091.33+baptised
–091.33+Motif: up/down
–091.33+mistletoe, holly, ivy (Motif: holly, ivy, mistletoe)
–091.33+ever
091.34upon the halfkneed castleknocker's attempting kithoguishly to
–091.34+knock-kneed: having inwardly curved legs; stumbling, shambling
–091.34+Castleknock Hill, Phoenix Park
–091.34+Anglo-Irish kithogue: left-hand, left-handed, left-handed person; also, awkward
–091.34+Samuel Lover: Legends and Tales of Ireland: The Curse of Kishogue (tale of Kishogue, hanged because he failed to stop for a drink on his way to the gallows)
091.35lilt his holymess the paws and make the sign of the Roman God-
–091.35+lift (his hand)
–091.35+His Holiness the Pope
–091.35+sign of the Roman Catholic faith (Motif: Sign of the cross)
–091.35+VI.B.14.188m (o): 'Q Celts Godel' [.03]
–091.35+Studies, An Irish Quarterly Review, vol. 13, no. 50, 322: Ireland and Wales (review): 'Until recent times the favoured theory has been, briefly, that the Goidels or Q-Celts came to Ireland through Britain, having sojourned in the latter country until the arrival of the Brythonic or P-Celts, who drove them on to the west coasts, whence they hastened over to Ireland' [.03]
–091.35+Goidelic: a branch of the Celtic languages (Irish, Scottish Gaelic, Manx), also called Q-Celtic, in which the Indo-European 'kw' has been mostly retained as a 'q' or 'k' or 'c' (Motif: P/Q) [.03]
091.36helic faix, (Xaroshie, zdrst! — in his excitement the laddo had
–091.36+German heilig: holy
–091.36+Hargrave: Origins and Meanings of Popular Phrases & Names 376: 'XAROSHIE. (Pronounce "x" as Scottish "ch.") An expression of satisfaction. Equivalent to Très bien and as much mutilated in pronunciation' (French très bien: very good; World War I Slang from Russian)
–091.36+Jesus Christ!
–091.36+Hargrave: Origins and Meanings of Popular Phrases & Names 376: 'ZDRÁSTVITYE! Contracted very often into "Zdrást!" The Russian form of greeting meaning "Be healthy!" Adopted by the troops it became the general form of greeting among themselves' (World War I Slang from Russian)
–091.36+Anglo-Irish laddo: lad, mischievous or spirited young man


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