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* '''''From thee, sweet Delvin, must I part'':''' Gerald Nugent, ''Ode Written on Leaving Ireland'', translated into English by the Reverend William Hamilton Drummond, D.D. → in a note, Drummond explains that Delvin is a barony in County Westmeath, where Nugent's family held a marquisate ** [http://books.google.ie/books?id=yjUEAAAAYAAJ Irish Minstrelsy, or Bardic Remains of Ireland] * '''Devlin:''' a medieval name for Dublin * '''delving''' * '''the devil''' * '''living'''

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