_Sheilagh's Brush_
sheila n Sheilagh's Brush. The day after St. Patrick's Day is usually stormy, and for a very good reason. My grandmother of Irish descent, has often said: "Well, dirty Sheilagh is at it again." This would be a rather wintry day, coming after St. Patrick's Day. According to h...
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ftmemorialunivdc:oai:collections.mun.ca:elrcdne/40219 2023-12-31T10:19:27+01:00 _Sheilagh's Brush_ xxxx/xx/xx image/jpeg 1 index card http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/elrcdne/id/40219 eng eng S 64-4 044 Mrs. B. McGrath St. John's 1955 St. John's Iris Power St. John's References: Dictionary of Newfoundland English, http://www.heritage.nf.ca/dictionary/index.php Dictionary of Newfoundland English Word Form Database 15947 S_15947_sheila n http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/elrcdne/id/40219 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 2023-12-04T11:29:25Z sheila n Sheilagh's Brush. The day after St. Patrick's Day is usually stormy, and for a very good reason. My grandmother of Irish descent, has often said: "Well, dirty Sheilagh is at it again." This would be a rather wintry day, coming after St. Patrick's Day. According to her the story is that St. Patrick was travelling along a country road, leaning on his staff, and as the day was sunny, he became very thirsty. He went up to the door of an Irish cabin, where the housewife was washing a tub of dirty clothes. She was a rather cross and impatient woman, doing her work rather spitefully. St. Patrick said,"God bless you, my good woman. and would you kindly give a weary traveller a cool drink of water?" The woman, Sheilagh was her name, without turning around, made an angry movement.and taking a dirty ladle, she dipped into the tub of washing water, and said, "Here, if it's water you're after.take this, and don't bother me, I've got to get these clothes out of dry while it's sunny." [reverse] St.Patrick was so disapointed to be greeted so callously by a spiteful housewife, after working so hard to bring Christianity to Ireland that he said:" You'll never hand your clothes out to dry. in the sun today, my good woman", and he threw the dirty water she'd passed him into the air.and immediately a storm blew up, and so Sheilagh didn't get her clothes dry that day. Ever since then, my grandmother says, it has always been stormy the day after St. Patrick's Day because of dirty Sheilagh. DNE-cit DNE-cit Used I and Sup Used I and Sup 2 Not used sheelah, sheilagh, sheelagh, sheiler, Sheelah, BRUSH, PATRICK'S BRUSH, sheila, LINER, PATRICK'S BATCH, ~ BROOM/brush/day. NEWFOUNDLAND FOLKLORE SURVEY. Reverse of the card at S_15948. Manuscript Newfoundland Memorial University of Newfoundland: Digital Archives Initiative (DAI) |
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sheila n Sheilagh's Brush. The day after St. Patrick's Day is usually stormy, and for a very good reason. My grandmother of Irish descent, has often said: "Well, dirty Sheilagh is at it again." This would be a rather wintry day, coming after St. Patrick's Day. According to her the story is that St. Patrick was travelling along a country road, leaning on his staff, and as the day was sunny, he became very thirsty. He went up to the door of an Irish cabin, where the housewife was washing a tub of dirty clothes. She was a rather cross and impatient woman, doing her work rather spitefully. St. Patrick said,"God bless you, my good woman. and would you kindly give a weary traveller a cool drink of water?" The woman, Sheilagh was her name, without turning around, made an angry movement.and taking a dirty ladle, she dipped into the tub of washing water, and said, "Here, if it's water you're after.take this, and don't bother me, I've got to get these clothes out of dry while it's sunny." [reverse] St.Patrick was so disapointed to be greeted so callously by a spiteful housewife, after working so hard to bring Christianity to Ireland that he said:" You'll never hand your clothes out to dry. in the sun today, my good woman", and he threw the dirty water she'd passed him into the air.and immediately a storm blew up, and so Sheilagh didn't get her clothes dry that day. Ever since then, my grandmother says, it has always been stormy the day after St. Patrick's Day because of dirty Sheilagh. DNE-cit DNE-cit Used I and Sup Used I and Sup 2 Not used sheelah, sheilagh, sheelagh, sheiler, Sheelah, BRUSH, PATRICK'S BRUSH, sheila, LINER, PATRICK'S BATCH, ~ BROOM/brush/day. NEWFOUNDLAND FOLKLORE SURVEY. Reverse of the card at S_15948. |
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