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* '''Roe Head:''' a school attended by Charlotte (who also taught there) and Anne Brontë → see [[Page_7|FW 007.20 ff.]] for a Brontë cluster | * '''Roe Head:''' a school attended by Charlotte (who also taught there) and Anne Brontë → see [[Page_7|FW 007.20 ff.]] for a Brontë cluster | ||
| − | * '''Roughead:''' William Roughead, a Scottish criminologist who wrote accounts of famous murder trials | + | * '''Roughead:''' William Roughead, a Scottish criminologist who wrote accounts of famous murder trials, including that of William Burke Kirwan for the the murder of his wife Maria Louisa Kirwan in 1852 on Ireland's Eye → [[ireglint's eye]] |
| + | ** William Roughead, ''The Fatal Countess and Other Studies'' (Edinburgh, 1924), which includes "The Secret of Ireland's Eye: A Detective Story" | ||
| − | *'''roundhead's''' | + | *'''roundhead's''' parliamentarians who overthrew King Charles during the civil war and installed Oliver Cromwell as dictator → place of the roundtheheads is parliament (compare with [[Baron Oath]]) |
| + | *'''round the head:''' you have to "round the head" of Howth if sailing into Dublin Bay from the north | ||
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| + | [[Category: Howth]] | ||
Latest revision as of 07:51, 12 November 2023
- Howth Head → baronoath
- to Roundthehead → to east (Howth being to the east of Buttevant Tower)
- Roe Head: a school attended by Charlotte (who also taught there) and Anne Brontë → see FW 007.20 ff. for a Brontë cluster
- Roughead: William Roughead, a Scottish criminologist who wrote accounts of famous murder trials, including that of William Burke Kirwan for the the murder of his wife Maria Louisa Kirwan in 1852 on Ireland's Eye → ireglint's eye
- William Roughead, The Fatal Countess and Other Studies (Edinburgh, 1924), which includes "The Secret of Ireland's Eye: A Detective Story"
- roundhead's parliamentarians who overthrew King Charles during the civil war and installed Oliver Cromwell as dictator → place of the roundtheheads is parliament (compare with Baron Oath)
- round the head: you have to "round the head" of Howth if sailing into Dublin Bay from the north
