1960 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
1960 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.
1960 J. O’Donoghue In Kerry Long Ago 57: Big door-step slices of home-made raisin cake.at doorstep, n.
1960 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
1960 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.
1960 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
1960 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.