ACROSS
1. High King who died defeating the Danes at Clontarf trips over our bar
bin. (5,4)
6. Let's turn up after a century to find the ancient people who came to
Ireland in about 200 B.C. (5)
9. "The ----- of Roger Casement is beating on the door." Yeats.
(5)
10. Object to night being over. (5)
12. Extinct dinornis seen amongst the Macroom oatfields. (3)
13. " --- thine house in order for thou shalt die and not live."
Isaiah Chap. 38 verse 1 (3)
15. Sparkling wine for Irish secondary teachers? (4)
18. Old copper leads flowing water to the one in control. (6)
21. " ---- kindly Light, among the encircling gloom." Newman.
(4)
23. By word of mouth in Fennor allusion. (4)
25. Steer glance away towards pretty Donegal seaside resort near Moville.
(11)
26. "She bid me take love ----, as the leaves grow on the tree."
Yeats. (4)
27. Dane comes over to spell out Jonathan Swift's position. (4)
28. To admonish makes Rex hot. (6)
29. "Who ---- you?" Penny Catechism. (4)
32. Race around out east, controlled by 18 across. (3)
36. Irish football fans' cheer forms part of Mayo lexicon. (3)
37. Do be a confused arrangement at home. (5)
38. Note 3 R's with nothing included is a mistake. (5)
39. A reed is broken in ancient Louth town where Cuchulainn slew his friend
Ferdia in combat. (5)
40. Let Bet rub around Cavan market town and angling centre on the Erne.
(9)
DOWN
1. Bale of long mixture in region of Central Plain of Ireland stretching
from Kildare to the Shannon. (3,2,5)
2. "Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor ---- bars a cage." Lovelace.
(4)
3. Take heed of musical sound? (4)
4. If lambs eat ivy, what do mares and does eat in Mayo at sunrise? (4)
5. One to measure with for the soldiers. (4)
6. Toothed wheel to copy colloquially? (3)
7. Taken in by Achill imitation in the extreme. (5)
8. Wash up for the Irish playwright, (1856-1900). (4)
11. Hack devil he arranged in West Waterford feature rising 230 feet above
the sea near Ring. (7,4)
14. Make the water hard, but turn it loose at first. (6)
16. Short Irish lawman is not young and will rebuke. (5)
17. Puts into flexible containers, but makes a mess of it if one makes a
this of it? (4)
19. Put in order once more in seaside town. (6)
20. Tilt B.R. cone. (anag.) Monaghan site of battle where Hugh O'Neill defeated
the English in 1595. (10)
22. The wood nymph seen in sundry advertisements. (5)
24. Lively Irish dance seen in Bruree, Limerick. (4)
30. Named over change. (5)
31. Commanding officer joins mother in a deep sleep .........(4)
32. ........then he joins doctor to search thoroughly. (4)
33. Not an imaginary sound to 24 down. (4)
34. Toome numbers include a list of options. (4)
35. Grouse about the bed. (4)
37. "For each --- is a dream that is dying, or one that is coming to
birth." O'Shaughnessy. (3)
