by Tom Lennon
hard-chaws
tough people, thugs
Hot Press
a biweekly music and events magazine published in Dublin. Like many publications of its kind, it runs personal ads
IRA
Irish Republican Army, an often violent organization opposed to British rule in Northern Ireland
Jacks
men’s bathroom
kip
a run-down place, a dump
knackers
originally a derogatory term for Irish Travelers (nomadic
people similar to gypsies), also denotes lower-class people
with rough attitudes
knickers
underwear
locked
drunk or wasted
nappy
diaper
Northern
person from Northern Ireland
pint
pint of beer. The drinking age in Ireland is eighteen, but the
law conditionally permits sixteen-year-olds to enter pubs
pissed
drunk or wasted
po-faced
overly serious, humorless, disapprovingly pious
row
argument or quarrel, often domestic in nature
runners
athletic shoes
scats
derogatory term for gay men
semi-D
semi-detached house, similar to a duplex. A common type of
home in the suburbs of Ireland and the UK
snogging
kissing, making out
snug
a booth or private nook in a pub
spoofed
joked or kidded
tearaway
delinquent or hooligan
wagon
derogatory term for an unpleasant woman
Ireland in the 1990s
When Love Comes to Town takes place in Dublin, the capital of the Republic of Ireland. Belfast, where Shane is from, is the capital of Northern Ireland, a politically separate region that is part of the United Kingdom. Since 1920, Ireland has been divided as a result of conflict between Catholic nationalists and Protestant unionists regarding Ireland’s relationship with Great Britain. After the violence of the Troubles, which began in the 1960s and took place mainly in Northern Ireland, the 1990s were a time of negotiations and cease-fires, though tensions continued. Dublin enjoyed relative peace throughout this period.
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978-1-4804-1989-6
First published 1993 by The O’Brien Press Ltd., Ireland
Foreword copyright © 2013 by James Klise
Text copyright © 1993 by Tom Lennon
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