Love that "Paper never refuses ink …" Very applicable today with revision:
"The internet never refuses a keystroke …" Rick Smoll -Original
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From: Ron McCoy via CoTyroneList
To: Gordon Wilkinson via CoTyroneList
Cc: Ron McCoy
Sent: Mon, Jan 14, 2019 6:13 am
Subject: Re:
Love it!
On Sun, Jan 13, 2019 at 10:34 PM 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
Hi Beverly
When I worked in Scotland in 1974 I took a couple of trips to Northern Ireland.
When I went there the voices and accents I heard sounded very much like the old
people I grew up with from around the Ottawa Valley Canada though they where
four generations removed. The longer I was
William Carleton was a local Tyrone writer whose work dates from the early to
mid 19th century. When I read his book "Traits and Stories of the Irish
Peasantry" I found phrases I hadn't heard from childhood. It was reprinted
about 20-30 years ago in softback, so hopefully you may be able to
Thank you. Yes, I have read that book. The “Irish peasantry,” whose stories
and lilt he records, is that of the “native Irish,” not the Scots-Irish from
western Scotland.
Beverley Ballantine
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> On Jan 14, 2019, at 4:58 PM, EVELYN CARDWELL wrote:
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> William Carleton was a
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Martha Davis
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I love what you say Rick, Paper never refuses ink …" Very applicable today
with revision: "The internet never refuses a keystroke …"
Such a great group of people. I’m a newbe to this group. Searching my family
roots in Gortin. Planning a trip there and still doing research!!!
Beverley
If you have a kindle you can download many of William Carleton’s books for free.
Marion
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From: EVELYN CARDWELL via CoTyroneList
Sent: 14 January 2019 21:59
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Cc: EVELYN CARDWELL
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- I don’t have any contemporary descriptions of Scots-Irish accents in
Tyrone in the 1800s but I do have some from Antrim which suggest that at that
period, the Ulster Scots spoke with a clear Scottish accent. (Today it has
modified a bit though it remains quite different from the rest
Many, many thanks to all for the good discussion re the accent that Ulster
Scots Tyronians probably carried to U.S. I am working on a family history that
began in Parish Desertcreat, Townland Gortavilly and moved to western Kentucky
in 1839/1840 through 1849. I use dialect writing for the
Hi Lyn,
another of my mother's sayings from my Autograph Book:
"/You may kiss beneath the mistletoe, or kiss beneath a rose,
/
/but the proper place to kiss a girl is just beneath her nose."/
//Gordon
On 15/01/2019 8:28 am, EVELYN CARDWELL via CoTyroneList wrote:
William Carleton was a local
I love that one I got to use that some time "Making a wigwam for a
goose's bridle."Thanks Gordon
Ron McCoyy
On 2019-01-14 8:40 p.m., Gordon Wilkinson via CoTyroneList wrote:
> Hi Ron,
>
> Another I heard too often when enquiring what my Belfast mum was
> doing: "Making a wigwam for a goose's
For those of you who are trying to write and capture the sounds and feel of the
Irish you may want to know about their love of their cattle. The first book
ever written was the book of the Brown Cow. The cow was the difference between
life and death for many families. The Ulster Scots women
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