Names And Terms From Philadelpia Here I Come - Text
Setting: Ballybeg, County Donegal
People (characters and those mentioned):
Gareth (Gar, Garry)
Mary O'Donnell
Maire
Sean Horgan
Conal Sweeney
Bagser
DoranGreenock
Crerand
St Martin de Porres
Curran
Brigid Colmcille
Place names: Ballybeg (Baile Beag)
St. Harold's Cross
Donegal
Bundoran
Bailtefree
Malahide
Mallorca
Lough Derg
Strabane
Belmullet
Bunmornan
Ardmore
Lough na Cloc Cor
Tenerife
Terms and Phrases: "So I did an old Irish turas, or pilgrimage..."
"Less aul foolin'"
"laddybuck"
"and to hell with that bloody mushy fiddler"
"Rotten aul snobby bitch"
"McLaughlin's Hotel"
"Amn't I hoarse calling you?"
"whatever few half-pence she has"
"Hide his cascara sagrada?"
"aul fluke-feet Madge"
"Vaccination cert.?"
"Gortmore House"
"black Lutheran and all that he is"
"2s 6d . . . 2 s 11d . . . 3s 3d . . . 3s 5 1/2d."
"And I have 6s 2d."
"many's a get I scutched with it"
"them shirts isn't right aired"
"Kenny O'Byrne and the Ballybeg Buggers"
"every goddam bloody man jack of us"
"It's too aul'-fashioned or something"
"leppin', and eejitin' about and actin' the clown"
"they'd put you astray in the head"