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Thread #45583   Message #674425
Posted By: GUEST,johnt,m
22-Mar-02 - 08:07 PM
Thread Name: cathleen
Subject: cathleen
Does anyone know the original Irish of this? Cathleen (from a set of 10 "Triads" ninth century or so

Lovely whore though Lovely,lovely whore And chosy-- Slept with Conn, Slept with Niall, Slept with Brian, Slept with Rory, Slide then, The long slide.

Of course it shows

Thomas MacIntyre apparently in a collection of Irish verse by John Montague...