{"id":2001,"date":"2015-07-01T21:43:09","date_gmt":"2015-07-01T21:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/?p=2001"},"modified":"2015-07-01T21:43:09","modified_gmt":"2015-07-01T21:43:09","slug":"out-dogs-and-more-along-with-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/out-dogs-and-more-along-with-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Out Dogs and More Along With You"},"content":{"rendered":"

In our home in Aughagreagh we used to have our share of the local sessions, where neighbours met up to party, tonight in one house, next night in someone else’s. This tells of a local house where the wife had a short tolerance after a certain hour and wanted the house cleared. The locals, out of a sense of fun and divilment, were not for moving… I wrote a version of this before and lost the words of it… so here’s the second draft!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"Our<\/a>
Our family in front of the home house at Aughagreagh<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

All were in for the session
\nOr had called by for tea
\nThe man of the house was merry
\nThe housewife tired and sleepy
\nThe bucks and nyeucks were not for moving
\nThe damsels and dawsies were wild and free
\nThe housewife would shout to clear the house:
\n“Out dogs, and more along with ye!”<\/p>\n

No one moved: this being Longford
\nTo be an annoyance was an achievement, not to be fair
\nTo see the housewife tired, her anger rising
\nWas a source of fun for all those there…
\nSomeone would strike up a song
\nThe dogs shivering outside the door
\nThe song would finish, the housewife would sigh
\nThe husband would call for more…<\/p>\n

Simple fun of a humble people
\nAll taken in good spirits, though it drove her demented
\nSome night the session would be in another’s house
\nShe would be the wall to dally and be contented…
\nA simple phrase to be remembered
\nAnd told of years later was a “grate spake”
\nEntertained a child told of when his parents were young
\nSuch things great memories make.<\/p>\n

Glossary:<\/b>
\n“grate spake” – great speak \/ saying (Hiberno English \/ phonetic spelling)
\n“bucks” – young strong men (Hiberno English, positive)
\n“nyeucks” – pranksters, sniggerers, (Ulster Scots, generally negative)
\n“damsel” – an innocent looking girl who was anything but (Eng archaic, negative)
\n“dawsie” – wild girl, prankster, too open or her own good (Ulster Scots, generally positive)<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In our home in Aughagreagh we used to have our share of the local sessions, where neighbours met up to party, tonight in one house, next night in someone else’s. 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