TIL about Yola, a.k.a the “Forth and Bargy dialect”, an extinct Anglic language spoken in southern County Wexford until the 1990s.
TIL about Yola, a.k.a the “Forth and Bargy dialect”, an extinct Anglic language spoken in southern County Wexford until the 1990s.
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> What’s the news, what’s the news oh my bold Shelmalier
> With your long barrelled guns from the sea
> Say what wind from the south brings a messenger here
> With the hymn of the dawn for the free
> Goodly news, goodly news do I bring youth of Forth
> Goodly news shall you hear Bargy man
> For the boys march at dawn from the south to the north
> Led by Kelly the boy from Killane
[Shelmalier](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shelmalier)
[Example of Forth and Bargy](https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/irish-english/forth-and-bargy/FB4D4D9AF270D2D7F3629C5C2EC9D94B)
I’ve been told it was spoken across north Dublin
Here’s a song in Yola
https://youtu.be/RFl9ptuxd8s