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‘I Became a Borstal Boy’ in After the Wake (1981) 26: I would have been reported to the Governor [...] and have got No. 1 (bread and water) ‘to cool me off’.at number one, n.
‘I Became a Borstal Boy’ in After the Wake (1981) 26: I would have been reported to the Governor [...] and have got No. 1 (bread and water) ‘to cool me off’. ‘I Became a Borstal Boy’ After the Wake (1981) 27: It’s a waste of time with you, Paddy, doing all this bloody signing.at Paddy, n.
‘I Became a Borstal Boy’ in After the Wake (1981) 24: I heard the shout ‘Right, all doors open. Slop out’.at slop out (v.) under slop, n.1
After the Wake (1981) 49: We were in a singing house on the Northside and got very sob-gargled between drinking whiskey and thinking of the operation.at gargled, adj.
After the Wake (1981) 54: The gassest little ex-Dublin Fusilier in the street.at gas, adj.
‘The Confirmation Suit’ in After the Wake (1981) 41: The buttons were the size of saucers, or within the bawl of an ass of it.at within an ass’s roar (of) under ass, n.
‘The Confirmation Suit’ After the Wake (1981) 40: They tasted it [...] Some said it was paste [...] and there were other people who maintained it was glue. They all agreed on one thing, that it was dangerous tack to leave lying around.at tack, n.2
‘The Same Again, Please’ in After the Wake (1981) 106: ‘I will,’ said I. ‘In the cod or in the real?’ ‘The real,’ said I.at cod, n.5
‘Same Again, Please’ in After the Wake (1981) 99: Don’t gimme that, mugsy, but before your dawgs goes into this bucket of nice fresh cee-ment, uh, uh . . .at dogs, n.1
‘The Same Again, Please’ in After the Wake (1981) 109: People looking out the windows at the footballers [...] screaming advice and abuse to young Coughlin not to be so mangy with the ball.at mangy, adj.
‘Same Again, Please’ After the Wake (1981) 99: Don’t gimme that, mugsy.at muggsy, n.
‘The Same Again, Please’ in After the Wake (1981) 111: It ’ung over the canteen counter – Beware – in black and red wool, till the Shinners let off a landmine.at Shinner, n.
‘The Catacombs’ in After the Wake 88: I’ll allow no hedging and ditching in this house, to bring the curse of God on us. [...] Boys with boys, and girls with girls, what’s natural and decent.at hedging and ditching, n.
‘The Catacombs’ in After the Wake 79: You are a dying old bollocks.at ballocks, n.
‘The Catacombs’ After the Wake 66: What are you? – beef to the heels, like a Mullingar heifer.at beef to the heel(s) (adj.) under beef, n.1
‘The Catacombs’ in After the Wake 97: A blue one, be jasus.at blue one (n.) under blue, adj.1
‘The Last of Mrs Murphy’ in After the Wake 23: My granny [...] said she’d bunce in a half a bar towards their trouble.at bunce in/up (v.) under bunce, n.
‘The Catacombs’ in After the Wake 91: You consumptive poxy parcel of fuckpigs.at fuckpig (n.) under fuck, n.
‘The Catacombs’ in After the Wake 72: When I walked in, he said to me, ‘How is the hammer hanging?’.at how’s your hammer hanging? under hammer, n.1
‘The Catacombs’ in After the Wake 86: I was waiting on the girls to use the Jacks first.at jacks, n.2
‘The Last of Mrs Murphy’ in After the Wake 18: They had the life of Riley down on the quay, while it lasted.at life of Riley, n.
‘The Last of Mrs Murphy’ in After the Wake 18: We were respectable people round this street [...] Down in Monto they had the famine.at Monto, n.
‘The Last of Mrs Murphy’ in After the Wake 20: Going past a pub on the corner of Eccles Street [...] My granny and Long Byrne and Lizzie MacCann all said they’d be the better of a rozziner.at rosiner, n.
‘The Last of Mrs Murphy’ in After the Wake 22: ‘Oh, whisht your mouth,’ said my granny.at whisht!, excl.
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