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Shawlies, Echo Boys, the Marsh and the Lanes 91: Somehow, God willing, we got through the ’20s and ’30s [...] They say now they were the best of times but don’t let them cod you. They were God-awful years.at God-awful, adj.
Shawlies, Echo Boys, the Marsh and the Lanes 91: Somehow, God willing, we got through the ’20s and ’30s [...] They say now they were the best of times but don’t let them cod you. They were God-awful years. (ref. to 1920s) in Verdon Shawlies, Echo Boys, the Marsh and the Lanes n.p.: Every Wednesday in Ireland was called Bull’s-Eye Day because that’s when the soldiers got their pensions.at bull’s-eye day, n.
(con. 1930s) Shawlies, Echo Boys, the Marsh and the Lanes 151: ’Twas a terrible time, really and truly. The poverty was cat.at cat, adj.
(con. 1930s) Shawlies, Echo Boys, the Marsh and the Lanes 19: I’ve heard them say Cork people are a bit underhand – awful chancers.at chancer, n.
(con. 1930s) Shawlies, Echo Boys, the Marsh and the Lanes 88: When the oldest daughter was ten that left me free to do a bit of charing for a few shillings a week.at char, v.
(con. 1930s) Shawlies, Echo Boys, the Marsh and the Lanes 206: They’d call the fellow collecting the insurance the ‘dead man’. ‘Did the dead man call to you yet?’.at dead man, n.
(con. 1930s) Shawlies, Echo Boys, the Marsh and the Lanes 49: We had a coin in the old system called half-a-crown and here in Cork that was always known as ‘half-a-dollar’ because a lot of families at that time had handouts from America at Christmas time.at half-dollar, n.1
Shawlies, Echo Boys, the Marsh and the Lanes 35: Whacker Murphy went shifting in the Arc and clicked a dolly from Gurrane. She was a lasher with a pair of josies that would act as buffers for the Innisfallen.at dolly, n.1
(con. 1930s) Shawlies, Echo Boys, the Marsh and the Lanes 152: My wages were three pound fifteen a month. Out of that, I had to feed myself and clothe myself and have my donkey’s breakfast on my back – that’s what you call the bundle of straw you used for a bed.at donkey’s breakfast (n.) under donkey, n.
(con. 1930s) Shawlies, Echo Boys, the Marsh and the Lanes 131: Then there was a famous cinema on the South Mall called the Assembly Rooms. It was a kind of a flea house.at fleapit, n.
Shawlies, Echo Boys, the Marsh and the Lanes 35: After getting his gallon from Dunlop’s, he picked up a great number.at get one’s gallon (v.) under gallon, n.
(con. 1930s) Shawlies, Echo Boys, the Marsh and the Lanes 35: He took her for a jorum. She started on whackers, but changed to meejums. He was on half ones.at half-one, n.
Shawlies, Echo Boys, the Marsh and the Lanes 109: There was a little bit of hanky-panky going on in the gallery. Nothing too bad, only a bit of kissing and cuddling.at hankypanky, n.
Shawlies, Echo Boys, the Marsh and the Lanes 52: The shame of it! Making a holy show of us in front of the neighbours.at holy show, n.
(con. 1930s) Shawlies, Echo Boys, the Marsh and the Lanes 100: When I used to go to school, I was a wild character. I used to go on the hop. Wouldn’t go to school at all.at play the hop (v.) under hop, n.4
(con. 1930s) Shawlies, Echo Boys, the Marsh and the Lanes 153: One of the young fellows would shout up to the mother, and she would say ‘Oh, jeepers!’.at jeepers!, excl.
Shawlies, Echo Boys, the Marsh and the Lanes 35: Then you had your old music hall songs. ‘Johnny Jump up’ by Tim Jordan [...] His song went like this: O never o never o never again / if I live to a hundred or a hundred and ten / For I fell to the ground and I couldn’t get up / After drinking a quart of that Johnny Jump Up.at johnny-jump-up, n.
Shawlies, Echo Boys, the Marsh and the Lanes 35: Whacker Murphy went shifting in the Arc and clicked a dolly from Gurrane. She was a lasher with a pair of josies that would act as buffers for the Innisfallen.at josies, n.
Shawlies, Echo Boys, the Marsh and the Lanes 35: Whacker Murphy went shifting in the Arc and clicked a dolly from Gurrane. She was a lasher with a pair of josies that would act as buffers for the Innisfallen.at lasher, n.2
(con. 1930s) Shawlies, Echo Boys, the Marsh and the Lanes 85: If you punched your wife, there’d be three or four of us come in that night and we’d really leather you.at leather, v.
(con. 1930s) Shawlies, Echo Boys, the Marsh and the Lanes 81: I got married late. We all did. We were years ‘doing a line’, as they called it. Some might do a line for ten, fifteen years before they tied the knot.at do a line (with) (v.) under line , n.1
Shawlies, Echo Boys, the Marsh and the Lanes 35: Not being a sawney, he spotted a way for doing foxers and soon he had loads of lops.at lop, n.2
(con. 1930s) Shawlies, Echo Boys, the Marsh and the Lanes 62: In those days some of the men went on benders. They’d go mad for the drink, absolutely mad [...] Some – not many – but some would even drink methylated spirits. They would. ‘Lunatic soup’, we called it.at lunatic soup, n.
(con. 1930s) Shawlies, Echo Boys, the Marsh and the Lanes 23: ‘You maggoty-looking article,’ he told the saint.at maggoty, adj.
(con. 1930s) Shawlies, Echo Boys, the Marsh and the Lanes 60: The women would slip into the snug for a quiet drink. They drank the ‘meejums’, the half-pints.at medium, n.
Shawlies, Echo Boys, the Marsh and the Lanes 35: Not being a sawney, he spotted a way for doing foxers and soon he had loads of lops.at nixer, n.
(con. 1930s) Shawlies, Echo Boys, the Marsh and the Lanes 89: I’d wash the children of a Saturday night. Fill up the old metal tub and they splashing around in it like seals in their pelts.at pelt, n.
(con. 1930s) Shawlies, Echo Boys, the Marsh and the Lanes 121: My father used to say, ‘Raz as me daz ah, I’m going down Pa’na’. That means it was lovely.at razzmatazz!, excl.
(con. 1930s) Shawlies, Echo Boys, the Marsh and the Lanes 83: You wouldn’t back-answer the parish priest. Oh no. He’d read you from the pulpit.at read, v.
Shawlies, Echo Boys, the Marsh and the Lanes 35: When he was shown the gononstrips, and not being a sawney, he spotted a way for doing foxers.at sawney, n.1
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