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Seamus McMurphy, the Glossary

Seamus McMurphy was an Irish poet and rapparee, who lived c. 1720-1750.^[1]

32 relations: Alcoholism, Armagh, Battle of Aughrim, Ceasefire, Charles Edward Stuart, Code of silence, County Armagh, County Down, Crossmaglen, Diarmuid Mac Muireadhaigh, Gravestone, Hedge school, Inn, Irish bardic poetry, Irish people, Jacobite rising of 1745, Killean, County Armagh, Mistress (lover), Mullaghbawn, Newry, Omeath, Ostracism, Pattern (devotional), Peadar Ó Doirnín, Poet, Priest hunter, Promiscuity, Psychosis, Rapparee, Satire, Shebeen, Slieve Gullion.
18th-century Irish-language poets
Executed people from County Armagh
Irish highwaymen
Irish outlaws
People executed by Ireland by hanging
People from Crossmaglen

Alcoholism

Alcoholism is the continued drinking of alcohol despite it causing problems.

Armagh

Armagh (Ard Mhacha,, "Macha's height") is the county town of County Armagh and a city in Northern Ireland, as well as a civil parish.

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Battle of Aughrim

The Battle of Aughrim (Cath Eachroma) was the decisive battle of the Williamite War in Ireland.

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A ceasefire (also known as a truce or armistice), also spelled cease fire (the antonym of 'open fire'), is a stoppage of a war in which each side agrees with the other to suspend aggressive actions, often due to mediation by a third party.

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Charles Edward Stuart

Charles Edward Louis John Sylvester Maria Casimir Stuart (31 December 1720 – 30 January 1788) was the elder son of James Francis Edward Stuart making him the grandson of James VII and II, and the Stuart claimant to the thrones of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 1766 as Charles III. Seamus McMurphy and Charles Edward Stuart are 1720 births.

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Code of silence

A code of silence is a condition in effect when a person opts to withhold what is believed to be vital or important information voluntarily or involuntarily.

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County Armagh

County Armagh is one of the six counties of Northern Ireland and one of the traditional thirty-two counties of Ireland.

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County Down

County Down is one of the six counties of Northern Ireland, one of the nine counties of Ulster and one of the traditional thirty-two counties of Ireland.

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Crossmaglen

Crossmaglen is a village and townland in County Armagh, Northern Ireland.

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Diarmuid Mac Muireadhaigh

Diarmuid Mac Muireadhaigh, sometimes known in English as Dermot McMurray, was an Irish poet, alive in the late 17th century.

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Gravestone

A gravestone or tombstone is a marker, usually stone, that is placed over a grave.

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Hedge school

Hedge schools (Irish names include scoil chois claí, scoil ghairid and scoil scairte) were small informal secret and illegal schools, particularly in 18th-century Ireland, teaching the rudiments of religious education to children of 'non-conforming' faiths (Catholic and Presbyterian).

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Inn

Inns are generally establishments or buildings where travelers can seek lodging, and usually, food and drink.

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Irish bardic poetry

Bardic poetry is the writings produced by a class of poets trained in the bardic schools of Ireland and the Gaelic parts of Scotland, as they existed down to about the middle of the 17th century or, in Scotland, the early 18th century.

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Irish people

Irish people (Muintir na hÉireann or Na hÉireannaigh) are an ethnic group and nation native to the island of Ireland, who share a common ancestry, history and culture.

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Jacobite rising of 1745

The Jacobite rising of 1745 was an attempt by Charles Edward Stuart to regain the British throne for his father, James Francis Edward Stuart. It took place during the War of the Austrian Succession, when the bulk of the British Army was fighting in mainland Europe, and proved to be the last in a series of revolts that began in March 1689, with major outbreaks in 1715 and 1719.

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Killean, County Armagh

Killeen"Killeen" is the official name of the townland.

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Mistress (lover)

A mistress is a woman who is in a relatively long-term sexual and romantic relationship with someone who is married to a different person.

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Mullaghbawn

Mullaghbawn, or Mullaghbane, is a small village and townland near Slieve Gullion in County Armagh, Northern Ireland.

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Newry

Newry is a city in Northern Ireland, standing on the Clanrye river in counties Down and Armagh.

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Omeath

Omeath (or Uí Meth) is a village on the Cooley Peninsula in County Louth, Ireland, close to the border with Northern Ireland.

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Ostracism

Ostracism (ὀστρακισμός, ostrakismos) was an Athenian democratic procedure in which any citizen could be expelled from the city-state of Athens for ten years.

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Pattern (devotional)

A pattern in Irish Roman Catholicism refers to the devotions that take place within a parish on the feast day of the patron saint of the parish, on that date, called a Pattern day, or the nearest Sunday, called Pattern Sunday.

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Peadar Ó Doirnín

Peadar Ó Doirnín (c. 1700 – 1769), also known in English as Peter O'Dornin, was an Irish schoolteacher, Irish language poet and songwriter who spent much of his life in south-east Ulster. Seamus McMurphy and Peadar Ó Doirnín are 18th-century Irish-language poets and Irish Jacobites.

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Poet

A poet is a person who studies and creates poetry.

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Priest hunter

A priest hunter was a person who, acting on behalf of the English and later British government, spied on or captured Catholic priests during Penal Times.

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Promiscuity

Promiscuity is the practice of engaging in sexual activity frequently with different partners or being indiscriminate in the choice of sexual partners.

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Psychosis

Psychosis is a condition of the mind or psyche that results in difficulties determining what is real and what is not real.

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Rapparee

Rapparees or raparees (from the Irish ropairí, plural of ropaire, whose primary meaning is "thruster, stabber", and by extension a wielder of the half-pike or pike), were Irish guerrilla fighters who operated on the Royalist side during the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland and the Jacobite side during the 1690s Williamite war in Ireland. Seamus McMurphy and Rapparee are Irish Jacobites, Irish highwaymen and Irish outlaws.

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Satire

Satire is a genre of the visual, literary, and performing arts, usually in the form of fiction and less frequently non-fiction, in which vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, often with the intent of exposing or shaming the perceived flaws of individuals, corporations, government, or society itself into improvement.

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