Ullans?!
Ullans
ull anes
ill ’uns
backhashin bauchles, duntin disrespectfu wee cutties,
inky owld sclanderers
Ah kent their father.
Ullans
ull anes
ill ’uns
lookin like a sookit cat
mair liker a chowed moose
that’d been pu’d through a fence backwards.
Ullans
uilleanna
píob uillean
union-pipes
marching as to war
no surrender
lamh derg abú.
Ullans
ullage
ugh!
eye of newt, and toe of frog, lizard’s leg and howlet’s wing
Shakespeare in south Armagh.
Ullans
ululate
sough
keen
the wild geese
the flooers o the forest
the snows of yesteryear
á la recherche du temps perdu.
Ullans
bull-lans
coo-lans
ploo-lans
stirks’ parks
turf stacks
beyond the beyons where the auld mare foaled the fiddler
at the back of Scrabo.
Anon
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