Newspapers | John Vines featured in Dr Diarmaid Ó Muirithe's famous 'The Words We Use' column that ran in the Irish Times for 22 years "The late John Vines, God rest him, a rural philosopher who held court in The Grove Bar, near Delgany in Co. Wicklow, once gave me the noun dowdy. I had previously heard only the adjective. By it he meant an untidy woman, a streel......" |
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