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Revision as of 12:39, 26 June 2012
- larrons of toolers → larrons o'toolers
- Saint Laurence O'Toole: Archbishop of Dublin (1161-1180), and the city's patron saint; he gave rise to Ireland's canonical independence from Canterbury
- St Lawrence: family name of the Earls of Howth (after the Spanish Saint Lawrence)
- larron: (French) a thief → Jacob, the thief of Esau’s birthright
- lashings of toilers: lots of workers
- tooler: one who works with a tool
Commentary
FW 005.03-04: with larrons o'toolers clittering up and tombles a'buckets clottering down.
As Lawrence O'Toole was rising to power in Ireland, Thomas a Becket was falling from King Henry's grace in England
