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In Kerry Long Ago choose

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[Ire] J. O’Donoghue In Kerry Long Ago 12: Put that blasted nasty old box [i.e. melodeon] away from you to the devil, Brian, [...] and let people talk.
at box, n.1
[Ire] J. O’Donoghue In Kerry Long Ago 84: He never left the valley till his mother wheeled him out of it in a little donkey-car the time he had the chincough.
at chincough, n.
[Ire] J. O’Donoghue In Kerry Long Ago 57: Big door-step slices of home-made raisin cake.
at doorstep, n.
[Ire] J. O’Donoghue In Kerry Long Ago 68: I didn’t want to wake the gaffers.
at gaffer, n.1
[Ire] J. O’Donoghue In Kerry Long Ago 44: Johnnie O’Sullivan Corrig was to make music with a melodeon, borrowed from Kate Norrie, a girl he was great with at the time.
at great, adj.1
[Ire] J. O’Donoghue In Kerry Long Ago 67: When he asked Peggy the Corner for a bottle of whiskey on the Kathleen Mavourneen system she politely refused to let him have it.
at kathleen mavourneen system (n.) under kathleen mavourneen, n.
[Ire] J. O’Donoghue In Kerry Long Ago 83: He was away from school this day and spent half his time pegging stones at crows.
at peg, v.1
[Ire] J. O’Donoghue In Kerry Long Ago 59: ‘I suppose Peg brought a nice penny with her,’ said Matty’s wife. [...] ‘’Twas nothing short of three hundred pounds’, said Connie.
at penny, n.
[Ire] J. O’Donoghue In Kerry Long Ago 188: He was a bad pill by all accounts.
at pill, n.
[Ire] J. O’Donoghue In Kerry Long Ago 76: He’d hit him a wallop across the puss.
at wallop, n.1
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