It appears the Big Fellow had a funny accent – even by Cork standards
Michael Collins was said to broaden the vowel in the word ‘eggs’, so that the result “came out something like ‘ogs’”
A keynote of this, as mentioned in Tim Pat Coogan’s biography of Collins, was the broadening of the vowel in the word ‘eggs’, so that the result “came out something like ‘ogs’.” This was a derisive reference to a then recent resolution by Galway County Council, asking Sinn Féin to seek a negotiated settlement because all the shooting was bad for business.
That too describes a kind of muck, but of the “runny, wet” variety and so perhaps lacking the stickiness of glit, as identified 2,200 years apart by Cato the Elder and Seamus Heaney. Back in 1968, he and a few colleagues in Guinness’s brewery produced a film called Liffey Faces, also tracing the river’s course from Kippure to Dublin Bay.
Into this shop one day came a “a very confidently middle-class lady” who – I’m assured this really happened - asked the young female assistant: “Have you any ghee?”
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