Southwest Tyrone English A
traditional Mid-Ulster English dialect
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Home Soundfiles The dialect Lexis W. F. Marshall Tyrone Irish References |
The 'Bard of Tyrone', the
Rev. W. F. Marshall (1888 - 1959) wrote dialect literature in his local
Sixmilecross dialect, which is very similar to SwTE. His most famous
poem is Me an' me Da (Livin' in
Drumlister), the first verse of which goes as follows:
I'm livin in
Drumlister,
An' I'm gettin' very oul' I have to wear an Indian bag To save me from the coul'. The deil a man in this townlan' Wos claner raired nor me, But I'm livin' in Drumlister In clabber to the knee. (see Livin' in Drumlister: The Collected Ballads and Verses of W. F. Marshall 'The Bard of Tyrone', Blackstaff Press Ltd., 1983) |
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