Are these sayings, and lilting voices, of native Gaelic origin? Or are they Scottish? I would like to know how a mid 19th century Tyrone Scots-Irish person sounded like when first in America. Thank you and great transcription work. Beverley Ballantine
Sent from my iPad > On Jan 14, 2019, at 10:11 AM, Rick Smoll via CoTyroneList > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Love that "Paper never refuses ink …" Very applicable today with > revision: "The internet never refuses a keystroke …" > > Rick Smoll > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Ron McCoy via CoTyroneList <[email protected]> > To: Gordon Wilkinson via CoTyroneList <[email protected]> > Cc: Ron McCoy <[email protected]> > Sent: Mon, Jan 14, 2019 6:13 am > Subject: Re: [CoTyroneMailingList] Irish Bally---ony > > My mom and dad used folk expressions liberally, my mom being more guilty then > my dad but by far the greatest offender was my neighbour who was a wealth of > folk expressions. She is now gone and sadly her expressions have not been > recorded but I am sure would have filled volumes. These I believe were handed > down generation after generation. One of my favorites was used to deflate my > budding but inflated educational ego. I would be explaining to her some great > scientific break through I had just learned at school and she would look at > me with kind but skeptical eyes and say, " how do you know that." and I would > say I read it in a text book to which she would simply reply, " Ah well, > Paper never refuses ink. Now does it?" On the same vein my father would > simply say to me ," Do you know that for a fact Mr. McCoy or did some one > just tell you that?" When it was said with that deep and melodic Ottawa > Valley accent which was in reality a Northern Ireland lilt one could not be > truly offended. I heard these expressions and so many more oft repeated as a > child and a young person growing up and sadly I took them for granted but > wished in my heart I could hear them all again. They bring back great > memories of kind and wise people, I miss them deeply... > Cheers > Ron McCoy >> On 2019-01-13 10:33 p.m., Gordon Wilkinson via CoTyroneList wrote: >> Hi Listers, >> As a kid in Belfast, I was intrigued by so many Irish place names starting >> in Bally... Those who know tell me it's derived from the Gaelic 'Baile na', >> meaning 'place of'. My mother would recite with a smile, the popular ditty >> of the time: >> If you weren't so Ballymena with your old Ballymoney, I'd buy a Ballycastle >> for my own Ballyholme. >> My mother was one for such sayings, so much so you'd be forgiven if you >> thought she'd kissed the Blarney, but I doubt she was ever that far south. >> There must be lots of these folk expressions which have fallen into disuse >> and now sadly lost. >> Gordon >> -- >> _________________________________ >> Nereda & Gordon Wilkinson, Hyde Park, South Australia. >> Web: www.ozemail.com.au/~neredon Skype id: neredon >> Emails: [email protected] >> [email protected] >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> CoTyroneList mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mail.cotyroneireland.com/mailman/listinfo/ >> (_internal_name)s > > _______________________________________________ > CoTyroneList mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.cotyroneireland.com/mailman/listinfo/ > (_internal_name)s > _______________________________________________ > CoTyroneList mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.cotyroneireland.com/mailman/listinfo/ > (_internal_name)s
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