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Connacht
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Definition:The western province of Ireland.County Galway is the most populous county in the province.
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Father Ted: Father Daley had the lump on his head in the shape of Connacht.
BBC. Father Ted: New Jack City (1996)
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to undertake the education of the five daughters of Mrs. Dionysius O’Gall of Bitternutt Lodge, Connaught, Ireland.
Charlotte Brontë. Jane Eyre (1847)
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Reign. This word is often used in Munster, Leinster, and Connaught, in the sense of to occupy, to be master of: 'Who is in the Knockea farm?' 'Mr. Keating reigns there now.' 'Who is your landlord?' 'The old master is dead and his son Mr. William reigns over us now.'
P.W. Joyce. English As We Speak It in Ireland (1910)
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“Have a care, ma’am, how yer spake to yer betthers. Robbin’, deceivin’, murdherin’, desthroyin’, thraytors, indeed! I like that! What brought over the lot ov yez, Williamites an’ Cromwaylians an’ English an’ Scotch, but to rob, an’ desave, an’ desthroy, an’ murdher uz, an’ stale our land, an’ bid uz go to hell or to Connaught, an’ grow fat on what was ours before iver yez came, an’ thin jibe uz for bein’ poor? Thraytors!
Humours of Irish Life: Charlotte O'Conor Eccles. King William
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