The Dublin Brogue

1895

Frances Power Cobbe, in her "Life," gives amusing illustrations of the Dublin brogue in which Irish Protestant clergymen, educated at Trinity college, used to preach 50 years ago. One, concluding a sermon on the "Fear of Death," exclaimed:

"Me brethren, the doying Christian lepps into the arrums of death and makes his hollow jaws ring with eternal hallelujahs!"

There was a chapter in the Acts which Miss Cobbe dreaded to hear read by a certain clergyman, so difficult was it to help laughing when told of "Pertheans and Mades, and the dwellers in Mesopotemia and the part of Libya about Cyraine, streengers of Roum, Jews, proselytes, Crates and Arabians."