In Finnegan's Wake, the lyric is, "Tim, avourneen, why did did you die?" And I've heard a song lyric: "Come back to Erin, avourneen, avourneen." Gleaning from the text, and without any knowledge of the word, I've interpreted avourneen to mean "woe is me," or something like that. Could any of our Gaelic speakers shed some light on the subject?