faction fight

faction The faction fights went on for many years after Colclough left. "Yallow-belly Corner," on the east side of Beck's Cove, commemorates the spot where the wounded in the melee used to be washed in the little brook flowing into Beck's Cove. The Tipperary "Clear airs,&quo...

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Newfoundland
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spelling ftmemorialunivdc:oai:collections.mun.ca:elrcdne/28252 2023-12-31T10:19:24+01:00 faction fight image/jpeg 1 index card http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/elrcdne/id/28252 eng eng F [1815] PROWSE 402 References: Dictionary of Newfoundland English, http://www.heritage.nf.ca/dictionary/index.php Dictionary of Newfoundland English Word Form Database 12938 F_12938_faction http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/elrcdne/id/28252 Department of Folklore Original held in the Department of Folklore. Memorial University of Newfoundland. Department of Folklore English language--Dialects--Newfoundland and Labrador Text Manuscript ftmemorialunivdc 2023-12-04T11:29:28Z faction The faction fights went on for many years after Colclough left. "Yallow-belly Corner," on the east side of Beck's Cove, commemorates the spot where the wounded in the melee used to be washed in the little brook flowing into Beck's Cove. The Tipperary "Clear airs," the Waterford "whey bellies," and the Cork "dadyeens" were arrayed against the "Yallow belly" faction--the "Doones" or Kilkenny boys, and the Wexford "yallow bellies." There were besides the "Young colts" and a number of other names for the factions. They fought with one another "out of pure devilment and divarsion," as an old Irishman explained it to me. SEP 5 1978 DNE-cit Used I Used I Used I Manuscript Newfoundland Memorial University of Newfoundland: Digital Archives Initiative (DAI)
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topic English language--Dialects--Newfoundland and Labrador
spellingShingle English language--Dialects--Newfoundland and Labrador
faction fight
topic_facet English language--Dialects--Newfoundland and Labrador
description faction The faction fights went on for many years after Colclough left. "Yallow-belly Corner," on the east side of Beck's Cove, commemorates the spot where the wounded in the melee used to be washed in the little brook flowing into Beck's Cove. The Tipperary "Clear airs," the Waterford "whey bellies," and the Cork "dadyeens" were arrayed against the "Yallow belly" faction--the "Doones" or Kilkenny boys, and the Wexford "yallow bellies." There were besides the "Young colts" and a number of other names for the factions. They fought with one another "out of pure devilment and divarsion," as an old Irishman explained it to me. SEP 5 1978 DNE-cit Used I Used I Used I
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title_full faction fight
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title_full_unstemmed faction fight
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op_source Department of Folklore
Original held in the Department of Folklore.
Memorial University of Newfoundland. Department of Folklore
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[1815] PROWSE 402
References: Dictionary of Newfoundland English, http://www.heritage.nf.ca/dictionary/index.php
Dictionary of Newfoundland English Word Form Database
12938
F_12938_faction
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