Great Irish Short Stories (34 page)
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Authors: Unknown
The metalled heels of his boots now beat a frantic tattoo upon the flagstones and his palsied hands continued to move back and forth over the surface of his blackthorn stick, as if it were a pipe from which they were drawing music.
Frank O’Connor,
The Mirror in the Roadway; a Study of the Modern Novel
(Freeport, N.Y.: Books for Libraries Press, 1970).
Frank O’Connor.
The Lonely Voice, A Study of the Short Story
(Cleveland, Ohio: World Publishing, 1963).
Richard J. Thompson,
Everlasting Voices: Aspects of the Modern Irish Short Story,
(Troy, N.Y.: Whitston Press, 1989).
Gaelic
a chuisle,
“O pulse [of my heart].”
Partridge.
Would-be phonetic Gaelic for “Devil take you” or “Devil take me.”
Gaelic
geirrseach,
“girl.”
Gaelic
cliamhain,
“a relative by marriage.”
Darling of my heart.
Young pulse of my heart.
My life is in you.
