| Title: | Celt Notefile |
| Moderator: | TALLIS::DARCY |
| Created: | Wed Feb 19 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Tue Jun 03 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
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I'm trying to track down the origins of what could be just a saying or
an extract from a longer poem etc.
"...ate your cake you snake and drink your glass of porter..."
I suspect that it has Corkonian origins as my maternal ancestors spent
some time in the region. It was always said with a heavy Munster
accent, and was used to encourage children to "eat up!".
Mike Hughes and Gerry Coady, please, NO COMMENTS! (unless you can point
out the source).
Mike.
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| 821.1 | DRIPSEY CASTLE | SLSTRN::MANNING | Thu Nov 01 1990 12:59 | 9 | |
When I used to visit my grandfather's farm in Coachford, Co. Cork as a
very young child, my Uncle Tim would say to me, "Ate your cake, you
shnake you." And my Uncle Tim had a sthrong Cork "country" accent!! I
now find that I can raise a lot of laughter at certain parties here
among the Cork crowd by doing a reasonably accurate imitation of my
Uncle Tim. Coachford, incidentally, is about 10-15 miles west of Cork
City on the road to Macroom and Killarney.
Pat Manning (from the City!!)
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