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Southwest Tyrone English
A traditional Mid-Ulster English dialect

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W. F. Marshall

Tyrone Irish

References
The 'Bard of Tyrone', the Rev. W. F. Marshall (1888 - 1959) wrote dialect literature in his local Sixmilecross dialect, which is very similar to SwTE. His most famous poem is Me an' me Da (Livin' in Drumlister), the first verse of which goes as follows:

I'm livin in Drumlister,
An' I'm gettin' very oul'
I have to wear an Indian bag
To save me from the coul'.
The deil a man in this townlan'
Wos claner raired nor me,
But I'm livin' in Drumlister
In clabber to the knee.

(see Livin' in Drumlister: The Collected Ballads and Verses of W. F. Marshall 'The Bard of Tyrone', Blackstaff Press Ltd., 1983)


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