granny shift n.— «Some men were interned during the Troubles and no one knew when they were getting out, so often women were left to rear the children. So, it was vital that the women went out to work. Some women worked what was known as...
golden thread n.— «This reluctance to sign up for the army life is being ascribed partly to the merger last year of the six Scottish regiments into one, with the consequent loss of regional identity. This identity is referred to as the...
grannying n.— «Claims that children living in Donegal were given places at secondary schools in Derry to the exclusion of local children were challenged in the High Court in Belfast today. The Lord Chief Justice Sir Brian Kerr was told...
interdesperse v.— «Jamaicans speak English, but it’s so interdespersed with slang and colloquialisms that it often hard to decipher.» —“Regiment’s school project is a class act” by Johnny Caldwell in...