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 Read that heading out for us now if you please.' Mick took it up and read 'St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans.' 'Very well,' says Garrett: 'now can you show me in any part of that Bible, 'St. Paul's Epistle to the Protestants'? This of course was a down blow; and Garrett was greeted with a great hurrah by the Catholic part of his audience. This story is in 'Knocknagow,' but the thing occurred in my neighbourhood, and I heard about it long before 'Knocknagow' was written.


 * Rookaun; great noisy merriment. Also a drinking-bout. (Limerick.)


 * Room. In a peasant's house the room is a special apartment distinct from the kitchen or living-room, which is not a 'room' in this sense at all. I slept in the kitchen and John slept in the 'room.' (Healy and myself: Munster.)


 * Round coal; coal in lumps as distinguished from slack or coal broken up small and fine.


 * Ruction, ructions; fighting, squabbling, a fight, a row. It is a memory of the Insurrection of 1798, which was commonly called the 'Ruction.'


 * Rue-rub; when a person incautiously scratches an itchy spot so as to break the skin: that is rue-rub. (Derry.) From rue, regret or sorrow.


 * Rury; a rough hastily-made cake or bannock. (Morris: Monaghan.)


 * Rut; the smallest bonnive in a litter. (Kildare and Carlow.)




 * Saluting, salutations, 14.


 * Sapples; soap suds: sapple, to wash in suds. (Derry.)