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Updated: May 16, 2025

"Well, ma'am," said Mrs Costelloe, the grocer's wife, from Tuam, an old friend of the widow, who had got into a corner with her to have a little chat, and drink half-a-pint of porter before the ceremony, "and I'm shure I wish you joy of the marriage. Faux, I'm tould it's nigh to five hundred a-year, Miss Anty has, may God bless and incrase it!

Anthony Trollope - The Kellys and the O'Kellys

"I'm happy that I can sarve you, ma'am." "Musha, long life to you, masther, for that same, any how but it's yourself that's deep in the larnin' and the langridges; the Lord incrase yer knowledge sure, an' we all want his blessin', you know." "Home, is id?

William Carleton - The Hedge School; The Midnight Mass; The Donagh: Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of: William Carleton, Volume Three