They're from Clare Island, and thereabouts; and there's more of them in Meath.

They're my mother's people, and was always real devils for fighting." I burst out into an immoderate fit of laughing at Mike's etymology, which thus converted Hetman Platoff into a Galway man.
"Oh, murder! isn't it cruel to hear you laugh that way! There now, alanna! be asy, and I'll tell you more news.

We've the house to ourselves to-day.
The ould gentleman's down at Behlem, and the daughter's in Lisbon, making great preparations for a grand ball they're to give when you are quite well." "I hope I shall be with the army in a few days, Mike; and certainly, if I'm able to move about, I'll not remain longer in Lisbon." "Arrah, don't say so, now! When was you ever so comfortable?
Upon my conscience, it's more like Paradise than anything else.

If ye see the dinner we sit down to every day; and as for drink,--if it wasn't that I sleep on a ground-floor, I'd seldom see a blanket!" "Well, certainly, Mike, I agree with you, these are hard things to tear ourselves away from." "Aren't they now, sir?
And then Miss Catherine, I'm taching her Irish!" "Teaching her Irish! for Heaven's sake, what use can she make of Irish ?" "Ah, the crayture, she doesn't know better; and as she was always bothering me to learn her English, I promised one day to do it; but ye see, somehow, I never was very proficient in strange tongues; so I thought to myself Irish will do as well.

So, you perceive, we're taking a course of Irish literature, as Mr.Lynch says in Athlone; and, upon my conscience, she's an apt scholar." "'Good-morning to you, Katey,' says Mr.Power to her the other day, as he passed through the hall.