to be on the verge of going Peig Sayers on it and making a poultice for me tooth?

[Doodadoo]

I am going a little bit insane with what appears to be a toothache. I have escaped the legendary pain of a toothache until 5 days ago, though I have heard it described in the worst possible terms throughout my life. I thought with sympathy of those who described the pain, as it appears to render the sufferer capable of poetic and graphic levels of imagery which terrified me in their descriptions. There was something about the brilliance of description which suggested that a toothache produced a pain worthy of note; an inspirational level of pain.

I'm now at the point of going Peig Sayers on it with leeches, or of attempting to fashion a poultice at the very least. Failing that, was it Robinson Crusoe who was marooned on an island or something who resorted to twine and a door to pull a tooth? If I knew which tooth was the culprit, I'd knock myself out trying that method too at this point. Nothing has been ruled out.

Fuck!!!!!!!! This pain is horrendous! What's worse is that I know that I have codeine here somewhere but can I fuck find it!

Not that it really matters but the boy was riding his bike

Is it any wondered your teeth are fucked in fairness . Coke before bedtime, your mammy would skelp ye.

*wonder. I need some sleep.
Get up them stairs and get your jammies on OP.
Oíche mhaith xx

Ár n-aithar......
atá air neamh?

I'm going straight to hell.

How were you never tortured to knit the tea cosy 😮 I started knitting mine in fourth class, Mrs O' Reilly (the auld bitch) said I'd never finish it, well she was wrong, I did finish it........in sixth class 😁 you needed about twenty needles to do it, and two different coloured wool, it was hell, probably the reason I never learnt Irish properly, too much knitting 😀

Hope the tooth gets sorted soon, if all else fails just keep drinking the whiskey 😉

Mise! Is Maith liom Peig Agus na scéalta ó Daingean !
Go Full Peig on the tooth/ she was an awesome woman. Or if you have coconut oil try slushing it around the painful tooth for about 30 seconds and then spit it out.

go n-eirí an tádh leat agus do fiacla tinn

Laughing out loud at the reminiscing about a shared literary trauma.

@Doodadoo I think your dentist probably prescribed metronidazole, take this 30 minutes after eating or it can make you vomit/feel very nauseated,

For pain relief until the antibiotics take effect, try solpadeine max, paracetamol and codeine (slightly higher dose than in cocodamol) ☘💐

Mary Lavin’s ‘The Widow’s Son’ was the two-endings short story about the young fella who either (1) cycled over the chicken and killed it and was berated by his mother to the point that he ran away to sea and never reappeared, or (2) braked to avoid it, went over the handlebars and was killed and berated by his mother for choosing the chicken over his life.

For anyone feeling nostalgic:

fongupdates.files.wordpress.com/2018/09/the-story-of-widows-son.pdf

For the uninitiated 😀moli.ie/intotheisland/

The world over, the Irish and British are besties and to be found propping up bars and popping out kids together to beat the band.

But when it comes to death, we are chalk and cheese.

OP I hope you got a decent night’s sleep what with all the whiskey! Salt water and painkillers are your friend but do get to the doctor for antibiotics as it sounds like an abscess.

"OP I hope you got a decent night’s sleep what with all the whiskey!"
I'd say the tooth is grand now but the tinneas cinn will be absolutrly banging. Do the ground up cloves work if you plaster them on your forehead?

No idea how the book came into my house but I read the English version of Peig and actually enjoyed it. I escaped it for my leaving we were one of the first years that didn't have to do it but my sister who is three years older than me was tortured by it. She goes off on a 20 minute Peig rant anytime it's mentioned. It's like some type of collective trauma that thousands of people can bond over.

My baby brother came through the system just after Peig was taken off the curriculum and claims to feel short-changed when his older siblings yarn on about children falling off cliffs every five minutes, and the fine bouncer of a girl dying of the measles and the Big Storm.

Ochon agus ocho o !

🤣
That will in Peig - the sequel..

Any idea what year it came off the Irish curriculum?
I definitely remember doing it and also remember the rude comments my brother wrote in the family version, but I’d forgotten half what is being mentioned here.

Glad you managed to numb the pain (of the tooth, not Peig - that pain is unquenchable!).

My patented way of identifying Tuiseal Ginideach was this: if the teacher asked "Cén tuiseal é?" I would stick up my hand and say "Tuiseal Ginideach". It was always Tuiseal Ginideach. Had no idea what it meant.

It came off in 1995. I had to do it in 1992 and wasn't wasn't impressed.

OP I'm going to try and make you feel better using the "there's always someone worse off than you" technique.

I'm having my gallbladder out in a week, last night the gallstone pain was so bad I was biting down on a rolled up towel.

And then my bastard tooth cracked so I now have toothache and feel like I've been kicked by a horse in the ribs. I feel like this could be the end of me now and it might be a mercy if it is

Hope you feel better soon

Welcome to the language @powershowerforanhour ! Gaeilge is for everyone 😁

@powershowerforanhour i don’t know if you can find it now, but years ago Des Bishop did a series ‘In The Name Of The Fada’ about his starting to learn Irish from scratch in the Connemara Gaeltacht.

Morning!
I'm now dosed to the eyeballs with codeine, paracetamol, ibuprofen and have just started the antibiotic.
Thank you all for the trip down memory lane and for keeping me sane in my hour of great need where, like Peig, I thought that I had cos insan uaigh is an chos eile ar a bruach.

Thanks for the tip re eating prior to taking the antibiotics. I really hope this is not one of the antibiotics which make me violently ill or I may well take to writing a lament myself!

Clove oil is all there is for it

It's such an unusual language to take an interest in. It's foisted on us in a way, but I have a friend who has started back studying Irish again at the ripe old age of 50! She has a client from the Gaeltacht and this client has sort of said that losing the language is losing a lot of who we are as a people as our language is very much an expression of our psyche.

Des Bishop also studied Mandarin and even tried stand-up in Chinese in China.
I've lived in a country with a different language and so much of who I was got lost in translation. It's very hard to be witty in a foreign language (if one was remotely witty to start with).