Maeve Can you give the words after "Devil Agorvson" it might help to get some more of the context. Regards Clare ----- Original Message ----- From: "mae bowater" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, September 19, 2009 3:16 AM Subject: [IRL-TIP] wo words i can't work out - Devil Agorvson > Hi List > i am hoping someone with experience in the Gaelic language could help me > out. > i have some letters from my ggfather John Dwyer who was born in the Parish > of Thurles 1838 and migrated to Australia c1856. in one of these letters, > which was written 1913, he mentions that he is going to buy a ggrandson 'a > full suit from top to toe corderoy jacket and trousers Irish frieze top > coat and blackthorn shirt & Devil Agorsvon in ...' > > my cousins and i are fascinated with these two words and unable to make > sense of it. from what we know there is no v in the gaelic language but > that is how he wrote it. > thank you if anyone knows what this means. > > Maeve > > > > __________________________________________________________________________________ > Get more done like never before with Yahoo!7 Mail. > Learn more: http://au.overview.mail.yahoo.com/ > _______________________________________________________ > Griffith's Valuation: http://www.failteromhat.com/griffiths.php > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > -- I am using the free version of SPAMfighter. We are a community of 6 million users fighting spam. SPAMfighter has removed 585 of my spam emails to date. Get the free SPAMfighter here: http://www.spamfighter.com/len The Professional version does not have this message