Showing posts with label Gaelic. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gaelic. Show all posts

Friday, March 30, 2012

Gg: girsha

definitiongirl Cocktail Party BanterDid you invite any girshas to this party? Literary Context

crying Eshtha Eshtha Eshtlia Hush girsha lady It is not the poor ladymother you would be disturbing would you Pho Pho The beautiful little girsha ladies never cry never make ugly noises It is only the wicked men that do that Some day the girsha ladies shall kill all the wicked ugly men in Ireland yes every one of them and throw them over there into the sea so they shall
{Maelcho: a sixteenth century narrative By Emily Lawless}


Audio Visual

Okay this was just weird but cool.  I typed girsha into the search bar and it gave me this Malayasian film.  I did not watch all of it, but you might like it, but don't blame me for your wasting 2 hours of your lonely life.

Friday, March 23, 2012

Bb: Bosthoon

Definitiona blockheadA Sentence to Use at Your Next Cocktail-PartyJoyce is such a bosthoon when he is around a pretty lady, his usual graceful demeanor becomes suddenly clouded, and he bumps into every gent at our party.

Literary Context

Among other exercises DALY taught Bosthoon to open the front door every morning at five o clock He accustomed the horse to march from the stable when an alarum set always at that hour went off lift one foot up to the old fashioned latch and press against it until the door yielded By degrees the manoeuvre was performed so punctually that DALY found all necessity for setting the alarum entirely obviated(I believe this was written by Owen Seaman).

Punch Volume 129  Magazine:
 By Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Sir Francis Cowley Burnand, Sir Owen Seaman

Film Strip:

There was no film on you tube for this word so I copied a picture from the faboulous site Wandering Rocks and its illustrations to James Joyce Ulysses.