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Ireland Under Coercion (2nd ed.) (2 of 2) (1888)

CHAPTER XVI
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I think you ought-- The Lord Chief-Justice .-- Well, I don't know that we ought, but we most certainly will not.

(Laughter.) Mr.David Sherlock, who (instructed by Mr.Archibald W.Disdall) appeared for Ellen Gaffney .-- Rest assured, we certainly will bring an action.
THE END.
* * * * * FOOTNOTES: [1] I have the authority of Mr.Hennessey, "the best living Irish scholar, and a Kerryman to boot," for this spelling.

I am quite right, he says, in stating that the people there pronounce the names of Glenbeigh and Rossbeigh as Glenbehy and Rossbehy in three syllables.
"Bethe," pronounced "behy," is the genitive of "beith," the birch, of which there were formerly large woods in Ireland.

Glenbehy and Rossbehy mean the "Glen," and the "Ross" or "wooded point" of the birch.
[2] A letter received by me from a Protestant Irish gentleman, long an ardent Nationalist, seems to confirm this.

He writes to me (June 15), "There is a noble river here, with a convenient line of quays for unloading merchandise.


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