Difference between revisions of "Little craythur"

Latest revision as of 15:50, 19 January 2014

liddle crathur → little craythur
- A first-draft version of Finnegans wake

Finnegan's Wake: (song) "Now Tim [Finnegan] had a sort o' the tipplin' way,/ With the love of the liquor he was born,/ An' to help him on with his work each day,/ He'd a drop of the craythur every morn." → While drunk, Tim falls from a ladder and dies; during his wake, he is splashed with whiskey and comes back to life

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 ** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity=JoyceColl.HaymanFirstDrft.p0059&id=JoyceColl.HaymanFirstDrft&isize=L A first-draft version of Finnegans wake]
-* '''creature''' &rarr; pronounced ''craythur'' in parts of Ireland
+* '''craythur:''' (''Anglo-Irish'') Irish whiskey, esp. illegally homemade one
-* '''craythur:''' (''Anglo-Irish'') Irish whiskey
+* '''''[[Finnegan's Wake]]'':''' (''song'') "Now Tim [Finnegan] had a sort o' the tipplin' way,/ With the love of the liquor he was born,/ An' to help him on with his work each day,/ He'd a drop of the '''craythur''' every morn." &rarr; While drunk, Tim falls from a ladder and dies; during his wake, he is splashed with whiskey and comes back to life
-* '''''[[Finnegan's Wake]]'':''' (''song'') "Now Tim [Finnegan] had a sort o' the tipplin' way,/ With the love of the liquor he was born,/ An' to help him on with his work each day,/ He'd a drop of the craythur every morn." &rarr; While drunk, Tim falls from a ladder and dies; during his wake, he is splashed with whiskey and comes back to life
+* '''creature''' &rarr; pronounced ''craythur'' in parts of Ireland
-[[category:Song lyrics]]
+[[Category: Songs and lyrics]]
+[[Category: Irish phrases]]