A Dictionary of Hiberno-English by Dolan Terence Patrick; Boatclub Blindboy;

Author:Dolan, Terence Patrick; Boatclub, Blindboy;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Gill Books

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iarlais /ˈiːrlə∫/ n., a person who remains smaller than other members of the same family; the youngest of the family (SOM, Kerry, who writes: ‘if somebody is referred to as an iarlais there is a hint of delicate health and other-worldliness, as distinct from íochtar’) < Ir.

idir /ˈıʤər/ prep., in the phr. ‘Dia idir sinn agus an tolc’, God between us and evil < Ir.

if /if/ conj., ‘often used in the sense of although, while, or some such signification. A Dublin jarvey who got sixpence for a long drive, said in a rage: “I’m in luck today; but if I am, ’tis blazing bad luck”; “Bill ran into the house, and if he did, the other man seized him round the waist and threw him on his back.”’ (PWJ).

ignorant /ˈıgnərənt/ adj., unmannerly, crude in behaviour. ‘He’s from an ignorant family’; ‘Don’t be so ignorant and behave yourself.’

ill /ıl/ adj., obstinate, self-willed (cited for Wexford by DOM, IWP, 116, regarding a comment he heard that a certain player in a hurling game was ‘ill’) < E dial.

in/ın/prep., as in ‘I am in my standing’, a literal rendering of Ir táim i mo sheasamh. Joyce, Finnegans Wake, 478.28: “Are you in your [are you a] fatherick, lonely one?” (cf. Ir tá an fear ina bhádóir, the man is a boatman (lit. the man is in his boatman).

-ín /iːn/, see -EEN.

inagh /ınˈjæ/ int., sarcastic: is that so? < Ir an ea. ‘I’m only forty.’ – ‘Forty, inagh!’ Griffin, The Collegians, 136: “‘An I seen your husband there too, ma’am.’ ‘My husband, inagh?’ says she.”

inch /ınt∫/ n., a water-meadow, a strip of grassy land beside a river; any narrow field along the side of a river (SOM, Kerry); a small island < Ir inse. ‘Drive the cows to the inch.’ See INIS.

indulgence /ınˈdΛlʤəns/ n., the remission by the Church of the temporal punishment due to those sins of which the guilt has been forgiven, usually in the sacrament of Penance (i.e. confession); the grace for an indulgence comes from what is known as the Treasury of Merits or Treasury of Satisfaction of the Church, a superabundant store of the merits of Christ, the Blessed Virgin Mary, and of the Saints, which were beyond the needs of the salvation of humanity, and which could, therefore, be used for the remission of temporal punishment due to forgiven sin; indulgences may be either plenary (an indulgence which remits the whole of the temporal punishment due for an individual’s sins) or partial (indulgences which remit a part of the punishment due for sin at any given moment, expressed in human terms of time, e.g. three hundred days, seven years, etc.); there are many short indulgenced prayers, e.g. the invocation of the prayer ‘Queen of the most holy Rosary, pray for us’ will receive three hundred days, ‘Hail, O Cross, our only hope’ five hundred days, and so forth; the precise significance of these designated periods of time has never been defined; suffice it to say that the possibility

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