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The Aran Islands choose

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[Ire] J.M. Synge Aran Islands (1912) I 52: I turn the conversation to his experience of the fairies. [...] He had seen two women who were ‘away’ with them.
at away (with the fairies) (adj.) under away, adj.
[Ire] J.M. Synge Aran Islands (1912) I 13: Due to the ‘learning’ in some hedge-schoolmaster’s ballad.
at hedge, adj.
[Ire] J.M. Synge Aran Islands (1912) II 105: He was a kind man but a queer man. Priests is queer people.
at queer, adj.
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