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/

Maeve Another thought on Devil Agorsvon-- the word Divil or Devil (spelling often varies) was often used as a negative. Terence Dolan in his Dictionary of Hiberno-English gives this as one example (from Shaw's John Bull's Other Island). Broadbent; Haven't you lunched? Tim: Divil a lunch - Forgive me if I'm stating the obvious in saying this means No (with emphasis) I haven't had lunch. I wonder if the second word Agorvson is in fact two words "a garsoon/gorsoon" from the Irish "garsún" = young boy . The final part of the sentence may help to clarify this . If you can find a copy of Dolan's book in a library it is well worth browsing through. 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 586 of my spam emails to date. Get the free SPAMfighter here: http://www.spamfighter.com/len The Professional version does not have this message