Fews Glossary: R 2

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Right            complete, thorough, ‘he’s a right gentleman’
Rightly         fine, ‘I’m doing rightly’ well, ‘I know it rightly’
Rigmarole    a convoluted, unbelievable story
Rise             rib, tease, raise his temper, ‘don’t rise him!’
Rogue         v. cheat, ‘he’d rogue ye if he had the chance’
Roughness   plenty
Rub        n. praise or disparage, ‘he’d give ye a wee rub’
Ructions    a hullaballu, a row, ‘he raised ructions over it’
Rue              regret, repent, ‘she rued the day that…’
Rug              to pull
Rummel       to shake
Run              leak, ‘the water has all run out of the pot’
Rung            step of chair or ladder
Runner        one always in someone else’s house, ‘ceilier’
Runs            goes, ‘the road runs all the way till Armagh’
Runt            small, reject, ‘Pay no heed of the wee runt’
Rust         take fright, to refuse, ‘the horse rusted on me’
 
 
 
 

Hughes 1950 Wedding Party

Luke Burke Newry
This fantastic wedding party was photographed in George’s Lane, Lower Mill Street back in 1950.  The bride (second from left) was previously Kathleen McAteer and her groom is Joe Hughes, fifth from left.  Most of the women are the bride’s sisters (Josie between bride and groom, and Margaret between Joe’s brother Ben [right] and his wife Rosaleen).
 
Rosaleen and Benny were married two years previously, despite the fact that they are the only ones wearing a lapel flower!
 
Sorry you cannot view the full-size photo.  I think it’s just great.
 
P.S. Did you spot the famous John Fearon?

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Fews Glossary: Q

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Dialect ‘Q’
 
Qua             marshy land, shaky bog-land
Quare          exceptional, usually qualifying a noun, from ‘queer’
Quare head  scholar, or pejorative, ‘I woke with a quare head on me’, i.e. hangover effects
Quare geg    ‘he’s a quare geg’, comic character not to be taken seriously
Quare-cleft   partly silly
Quicks         thorn plants
Quit             Put an end to, ‘quit yer blettering, will ye?’
Quit             acquit, ‘I quit ye of blame for it’
Quiz             question, ‘quiz him as to where he was’
Quet            alternative pronunciation of ‘quit’
Quest party  search party, ‘the quest party looked for the lost gassun’
 

Fews Glossary: P 2

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Dialect ‘P’  2
 
Play             conduct, ‘it will be the best of your play, not to meddle with him’
Plenish         stock, furnish, ‘a well-plenished house or farm’
Polished       consummate, ‘a polished rascal, him’
Poor mouth v. denigrate
Power          quantity, ‘a power of money’
Prentice       apprentice
Prig              haggle or steal
Prod            push or stick
Prog            steal
Pross           sue
Prough         plenty, ‘he has a brave prough with him’
                   Poor, ‘a wee prough of a place’
Puke            vomit, n. miserable, disagreeable type of person
Purty           pretty
Purty-bread  potato-bread
Purty-middling        fair well
Puss            sour-puss, miserable-looking face
Put by, Put about   upset
Put by          iridescent, ‘I was put by myself with anger’
Put on          dress, ‘she had hardly time to put on herself’, pretending, ‘she’s good at putting it on’
Put out        story, ‘that’s a quare put-out for you to repeat’
Putting a face on him       showing his annoyance

St John of God Centenary

St John of God was born Joao Cidade in Portugal in 1495 (about the time Christopher Columbus was making his voyages of discovery to the New World, later to be deemed America) but from the age of eight years, he lived in Spain.  
 
The Irish congregation of the St John of God community was founded in Wexford in 1871 by Bishop Thomas Furlong and Mother Visitation Clancy.  Just thirty-three years later, in August 1904, following the request of Dr O’Neill, Bishop of Dromore, three members of the Order travelled to Newry to take charge of the Daisy Hill Infirmary.  
 
Inevitably they worked too in the workhouse that was on the same grounds.  Agnes Boyd of the Board of Guardians (grandmother of Russell Boyd, of Boyd’s Stores) saw to that.  Sr M Malachy Kearns was appointed as nurse of Newry Workhouse at