![[Ire]](/static/img/flags/ire.png "Ireland")
Irene 47/1: All those soaplock college boys and fortune-hunters who are for ever dangling around her?at soap lock, n.
Irene 47/1: All those soaplock college boys and fortune-hunters who are for ever dangling around her? Even without Irene 31: I had not been truly a country boy, for my native place was Londonderry and earlier I had lived in Belfast. I steered a course between being a rough lad and a ‘cissy’ or ‘Jinny’.at jenny-ass, n.
Even without Irene (1995) 85: Father was normally somewhat suspicious of those who ‘dug with the wrond foot’ .at dig with the other foot (v.) under dig with the...foot, v.
Even without Irene 26: Every boy jack of them was crammed with city lore, craftily on the make.at every man jack (n.) under every, adj.
(con. 1930s) Even without Irene 61: I’ll show you who’s drunk, you f------, half blind get. You don’t even know who yer Da is.at get, n.1
(ref. to 1930s) Even without Irene 58: A troubled boyhood – dark and haunted, yet not without an innate belief that one day I would lead the life of Larry.at life of Larry, n.
(ref. to 1930s) Even without Irene 39: A handful of boys who had been at the ‘methody’ prep school.at Methody, adj.
(ref. to 1930s) Even without Irene 63: I went into the scullery, poured myself a cup of buttermilk and made myself a big ‘piece’.at piece, n.
Even without Irene 26: Someone remarked ‘Henry’s on the pig’s back now.’ [...] they seemed to imply that Father had just had a stroke of luck.at on the pig’s back under pig, n.
(ref. to 1930s) Even Without Irene 29: The writings of journalists, both local ones and those from ‘across the water.’.at water, the, n.
Even without Irene 23: He was a country lad, not a townee versed in sectarian animosity.at townie, n.
(ref. to 1930s) Even without Irene 26: Wheedlers who could take the last ‘wing’ from a rawly innocent country lad.at wing, n.2
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