1975 Church St People

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1       Margaret Larkin
           George Larkin
         Patrick Larkin
 
 
 
 
 
1A     Francis Trainor
         Mary Trainor
3       Patrick Gorman
         Mary Gorman
5       Alice Ruddy
         Terence Ruddy
7       Bernard Larkin
         Mary Larkin
9       Mary Kelly
         Susan Kelly
11     Richard Rodgers
13     Angela Downey
15     Robert Fegan
         Irene Fegan
17     Michael Rice
51     Peter McCourt
         Mary McCourt
         Ann McCourt
52     Mary Hughes
         Thomas hughes
53     Mary McLoughlin
         Patricia McLoughlin
         Michael McLoughlin
         Henry McLoughlin
55     Margaret Turley
57     Thomas O’Hare
         Annie O’Hare
59     Mary McClure
61     Agnes keenan
         Elizabeth Keenan
         Josephine Keenan
63     Owen McLoughlin
         Mary McLoughlin
65     Eamon McCaul
         Edward McCaul
         Annie McCaul
          Gerard McCaul
67     Anne Doyle
         Francis Doyle
69     Patrick Loughran
         Ursula Loughran
71     Rose Burns
73     Maureen leather
75     Bernard Golding
77     John Hughes
         Robert Hughes
         Kathleen Hughes
85     Thomas McEvoy
87     Patrick McAteer
         Mary McAteer
         Bernadette McAteer
         Patrick McAteer (Jnr)
2       John O’Neill
4       Charles Hickland
         Mary Hickland
6       Robert Martin
         Patrick Martin
8       Gerard Toner
         Patricia Toner
10     Hugh Finnegan
12     Gabriel O’Hare
         Anne O’Hare
14     Mary Gallagher
         Susan Gallagher
         James Gallagher
16     Mary Warrinnier
         Camilla Warrinnier
18     Noel Collins
         James Collins
20     Gerald McLoughlin
         Thomas McLoughlin
22     Bridget Rocks
         Anthony Rocks
24     Mary Smith
26     Lucia White
         Martin White
28     James Hughes
         Dorothy Hughes
32     Mary Hagan
         Denis hagan
         James Hagan
34     Elizabeth Sheridan
36     Dominic Donnelly
         Maureen Donnelly
38     Mary Keenan
46     Desmond Murphy
         Mary Murphy
48     Margaret hart
         Eileen O’Reilly
         Thomas O’Reilly
50     Rose Smith
54     Catherine Hillen
56     James McGovern
         Mary McGovern
58     Patrick Rooney
         Jean Rooney
         Jeanette Rooney
60     Susan McAteer
         Michael McAteer
62     Mary Manly
         Francis J Manly
         Patrick Manly
         William Manly
64     Emily Woods
         Patrick Woods
         Patrick Woods (Jnr)
         Bridget Woods
66     Robert Lundy
         Mary Lundy
         Robert Lundy (Jnr) 
 
 
 

Fews Glossary: O

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Dialect ‘O’
 
Odd             occasional, few in number, ‘there’s only the odd one left’
Off ‘n on      from time to time, now and then
Offer            attempt, ‘his first offer at the jump’
Oil                beat, ‘I’ll oil his backside for him’
Oiled            drunk, ‘he was well-oiled’
On               var. ‘what did it on ye?’, ‘he is married on’ (re-married), ‘say a kind word on’, ‘on for fun’, ready for amusement
Orate           talking as with authority, ‘What’s he orating on now?’
Open weather        fine weather
Our ones      my family
Out              out by, ‘it’s not the weather for being out by’, out-of-doors: ‘she called me out of my name’, mis-called me; n. out-friend, a distant relation, ‘he’s been out with me this long time’, no longer friends; courting, ‘they’re going out together’; wrong, ‘you’re all out in your story; ‘out by’, away from home
Over            ‘At last, she’s over’, the child has finally fallen asleep
                   Recover, ‘he has overed it well’
Overhaul      recite, ‘he could overhaul the whole piece for you’
Owed           owned, ‘he owed till the doing of it’, ‘he owes a quare take of land’
Oxter           armpit
Oxter-cogged        walked arm-in-arm

Ancient Britons

We lately made reference to the ‘Ancient Britons’ – (S Moninna and Killeavy 4 Dec) – that barbarous Welsh regiment that wrought terror in these parts at the close of the eighteenth century.
 
One day in 1797 in the company of Becker’s Yeomanry they set out towards Ballyholland and Corrags.  Seeing them approach the widow Ryan sent her young son to the lane’s end to open the gate for the troopers.  As the last soldier filed through he turned on the little boy and shot him through the heart.  Having subsequently destroyed the home’s contents they ‘tumbled’ the cottage (the widow and her surviving son taking secret shelter beyond the house) and trampled the dead boy’s body with their horses’ hooves as they left.  Still not content with their day’s work they moved on to Mettleton’s Meadow.  A football game was in progress. 
 
The frightened participants fled and sought shelter in a nearby red barn.  The soldiers surrounded it with swords drawn.  Declaring an illegal meeting to be taking place within Becker ordered that all there be hacked to pieces.  When their evil deed was accomplished, one trooper wrote in blood on the barn’s wall, ‘By United work we lost our lives.’
 
At Grinan the soldiers raided the home of a man called McGovern whose son was a student priest.  Finding a Latin missal they concluded the language was French and the young man a French spy.  He was ‘pitch-capped’ – that is, molten tar in a cup-shaped receptacle was pressed upon his skull.  This was a favourite torture technique of that time.
 
The Yeomen burned a number of houses and took prisoners back to Newry for trial.  Marched manacled through the town John Morgan attempted escape.  He was immediately run through with a soldier’s blade. 
 
Patrick McEvoy and Edward McGovern were taken to ‘Gallow’s Hill’ (now Heather Park) and hanged, drawn and quartered.  Townspeople were forced to watch.  Their decapitated heads were spiked and displayed outside the town’s News Room ‘as an example to others’.

Fews Dialect: L 2

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Labour  dig, toil
Laced  beaten, ‘
Pat’s Hughie was laced to ribbons in the fight’
Laced 
 fortified with spirits
Lamentable bad, ‘
lamentable news’
Land
  arrive [regardless of mode of transport!]
Landed  ended up, fell, ‘he landed in the water’
  hit ‘
I landed him one on the nose’
  caught, ‘
She landed him’
Lant  
scold
Lap  wrap,
‘Lap the shawl round ye’
Lapped up
 ate hungrily, wrapped up, succombed to flattery
Lash  plenty, heaps, ‘lashings o’ money’
  Splash, ‘lash the water round ye’
  Vomit, ‘she lashed it all off’
  Threshed, ‘he lashed it with the flail’
  Scold, ‘
she’s always lashing out’
Last
  endurance,
‘there’s no last in it’ ‘he’ll not last the night’
Las
ty  lasting
Laudy-daw snobbish
Law  ‘to take the law’, to go to law, ‘lay down the law wi’ them’, talk with authority
Lay  clear, leave, ‘Lay the house this minit’
Lay on  flattery, chastisement,
‘She’s good at laying it on’
Learn
  teach,
‘I’ll learn ye if I get me hands on ye’
Leather
  to beat
Let on  var.  ‘don’t let on’, don’t tell
  
‘we never let on we saw her’
  ‘he’s ony letting on’
, pretending
Let be  leave alone
Level going easy tempered
Lick  n. a toady, a blow ‘a lick on the snout’, a blow to the nose,
  Careless washing, ‘that’s just a lick and a promise’ v. to beat, also a promise or a pledge, ‘
we’ll lick thumbs on that’
Lies
  near, ‘it lies by me till I need it’ 
Lift  church, or event collect, ‘
What was the lift?’
  Understand,
‘I didn’t lift you there’
  Steal, ‘
that boy ‘ud lift anything not nailed down’
  Carry a coffin, ‘You’re with the second lift, OK?
  Kick, ‘
I’ll lift ye with me toe’
  A dead lift, a weight raised from ground level
Liggety  long
Lights  lungs, ‘.
.roaring his lights out for nothing at all’ ‘I’ll knock yer lights out’
Like 
 continuation of above
‘..like I don’t know what’
  ‘what like is the calf?’
is it good or otherwise
Likeness photograph, ‘
he had his likeness tuk’
Limber
  easily broken
Lines  certificate of marriage, baptism etc.
Linge  to chastise
Lip  impertinence
  Taste, ‘I haven’t lipped drink the day’
Lint-hole flax-hole
Load  quantity of drink
  ‘he had a full load, drunk as a lord’
Load of coul’  a bad dose of the cold
Lock  an unspecified quantity, ‘
a lock of potatoes’
Loft 
 upstairs
Lobby  big, careless, slothful
Loodther to beat
Looks his bit  begs for food, ‘a poor man looks his bit’
Looney  lunatic
Longsome slow, ‘
he’s that longsome’
Loose 
 free, ‘
When yer father’s loose I’d like a word with him’
Loose-leg
 free to come and go, as a bachelor
Looseness diarrhoea
Loy  spade
Lue  lukewarm, as of water, courting, friendship
Lump it  put up with, ‘If you don’t like it you can lump it!’
Lump  large, ‘a great lump of a child’, [or horse, house etc]
Lying  sick, ‘she’s been lying for months’
Long-tongued indiscreet person
Loose-tongued same, also, a bawdy conversationalist
Lug  ear