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Latest revision as of 11:14, 30 June 2012

  • Arthur Guinness and Son, Company, Limited: the company that brews Guinness in Dublin
  • Brothers Grimm: Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, the German scholars and folklorists → Grimms Fairy Tales → Grimm’s Law, which describes the phonetic shifts that occurred in Proto-Germanic
  • sunshade
  • gunshot
  • Cromwell: Oliver Cromwell, English warlord who invaded Ireland in 1649 and ruthlessly suppressed the native Catholics; the latter had originally revolted in 1641 and later supported Charles I and his Royalists in the English Civil War
  • welly: a Wellington boot, named after the Duke of Wellington, but now the standard working footwear of the Irish farmer
  • loot: (1) to lurk, lie concealed; (2) to make obeisance, to bow; (3) to pillage