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Thread #31558   Message #4137364
Posted By: GUEST
21-Feb-22 - 04:50 AM
Thread Name: Origins: A Stor Mo Chroi meaning
Subject: RE: Origins: Stor Mo Chroi meaning
There are other examples of a loan phrase in Irish as is done in Starry Night?                                 

Molly bawn a storeen come and lay me down
"Mailí Bhán," or Fair Mary (Fairhaired Mary,(diminutive)stóirín= my “little darling”.

As in:
I’m drunk today, I’m seldom sober

A handsome rover from town to town

When I am dead, my story ended

Molly Bawn a stoirín, come lay me down

It is interesting how the Irish gets anglicised as it travels. e.g.
https://cjtm.icaap.org/content/14/v14art3.html