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"I liked the way he made love then he knew the way to take a woman when he sent me the 8 big poppies because mine was the 8th" (U18.328) |
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"he must have been a bit late because it was 1/4 after 3 when I saw the 2 Dedalus girls coming from school I never know the time even that watch he gave me never seems to go properly Id want to get it looked after" (U18.343) |
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"just as well he has to go to Ennis his fathers anniversary the 27th it wouldnt be pleasant if he did" (U18.349) |
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"no its better hes going where he is besides something always happens with him the time going to the Mallow concert at Maryborough ordering boiling soup for the two of us then the bell rang out" (U18.356) |
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"O I love jaunting in a train or a car with lovely soft cushions" (U18.366) |
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"I wonder will he take a 1st class for me he might want to do it in the train by tipping the guard well O I suppose therell be the usual idiots of men gaping at us with their eyes as stupid as ever they can possibly be" (U18.367) |
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"that was an exceptional man that common workman that left us alone in the carriage that day going to Howth Id like to find out something about him 1 or 2 tunnels perhaps then you have to look out of the window all the nicer then coming back suppose I never came back what would they say eloped with him that gets you on the stage" (U18.369)
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"the last concert I sang at where its over a year ago when was it St Teresas hall Clarendon St" (U18.374)
The church of St Teresa (of Avila) on Clarendon St was opened in 1797, and belongs to the order of the Discalced Carmelites. St Teresa's [Total Abstinence and Temperance Loan Fund Society] Hall was at 43-44 Clarendon Street. It was a venue for popular theater. There Yeats' play 'Cathleen Ni Houlihan' opened in 1902, with Maud Gonne in the title role. |
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"little chits of missies they have now singing Kathleen Kearney and her like" (U18.375) |
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"on account of father being in the army and my singing the absentminded beggar and wearing a brooch for Lord Roberts when I had the map of it all and Poldy not Irish enough was it him managed it this time I wouldnt put it past him" (U18.376) |
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"like he got me on to sing in the Stabat Mater by going around saying he was putting Lead Kindly Light to music" (U18.380) |
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"or old oom Paul and the rest of the other old Krugers go and fight it out between them" (U18.394)
Stephanus Johannes Paulus Kruger (1825-1904), better known as Paul Kruger, or fondly as Oom Paul (Afrikaans for 'Uncle Paul'), was a prominent Boer resistance leader against British rule, and president of the Transvaal Republic in South Africa. |
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"past the 10 th hussars the prince of Wales own" (U10.401) |
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"or the lancers O the lancers theyre grand or the Dublins that won Tugela his father made his money over selling the horses for the cavalry" (U18.402) |
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"well he could buy me a nice present up in Belfast after what I gave him" (U18.404) |