by IrishRover Thu Aug 20, 2009 8:55 am
http://www.pogues.com/Releases/Lyrics/LPs/RedRoses/AuldTriangle.html wrote:THE AULD TRIANGLE
NOTE: Long ago Tommy told me the word being used is "Loike" (sounds like "like") and is Irish prison slang for a new fish (e.g. a new inmate). But because nothing is ever simple, controversy erupted in April of 2003. frontusa (clearly someone that takes their Brendan Behan lyrics seriously) wrote to say:
The word is not "loike" nor "like" nor does "like" mean a "new fish". The original lyric, as written by Brendan Behan, was "lag". "Tommy" is mistaken.
"Lag" is Dublin (Ireland) slang to mean a prisoner doing (usually) a five-year stretch (or longer).
and oindeed so, tois' noit wroitten loike noir laeg,
Brendan uses lag, oi've came acroiss oit just recently.
here oit goies:
"The screws started at me aboiut them, and sayoin' that every OIRA bastard shoiuld get the roipe, that oit was too gooid foir them, and that they shoiuld be goiven oiut to the peoiple of Coiventry. The screws began sayoin', too, that the
lags oin Dartmooir had koicked the shoit oiut of OIRA men, and were nearly telloin' the proisoiners here that they woiuldn noit moind oif they gave me a koickoin."
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[b]THE AULD TRIANGLE[/b]
NOTE: Long ago Tommy told me the word being used is "Loike" (sounds like "like") and is Irish prison slang for a new fish (e.g. a new inmate). But because nothing is ever simple, controversy erupted in April of 2003. frontusa (clearly someone that takes their Brendan Behan lyrics seriously) wrote to say:
The word is not "loike" nor "like" nor does "like" mean a "new fish". The original lyric, as written by Brendan Behan, was "lag". "Tommy" is mistaken.
"Lag" is Dublin (Ireland) slang to mean a prisoner doing (usually) a five-year stretch (or longer).
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and oindeed so, tois' noit wroitten loike noir laeg,
Brendan uses lag, oi've came acroiss oit just recently.
here oit goies:
"The screws started at me aboiut them, and sayoin' that every OIRA bastard shoiuld get the roipe, that oit was too gooid foir them, and that they shoiuld be goiven oiut to the peoiple of Coiventry. The screws began sayoin', too, that the [b][i]lags [/i][/b]oin Dartmooir had koicked the shoit oiut of OIRA men, and were nearly telloin' the proisoiners here that they woiuldn noit moind oif they gave me a koickoin."
