Word: meath
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Noah. The idea is pretty thin to start with, and it is not even corn-fed from there on. The building of the Ark, for instance, is a nail-by-nail account that only a carpenter might care to follow. Author White, who wrote the book in County Meath, finds Irishmen slovenly, superstitious, witless and whining- when they are not irritatingly lovable, that...
...stone warm side up" to make the soft, drying west wind blow over Ireland. Two days before the Saint's day, a thaw came, but with it a ten-hour fall of rain and sleet. Ireland's rivers boiled in swollen anger, flooding the lush valleys in Meath, Carlow, Athlone, Cork and Wexford. In Kilkenny town the floods were the worst in living memory...