IRELAND IN CROSSWORDS ©
ACROSS
1. I'd be Ginger Hill. (anag.) Carlow birthplace of scientist John Tyndall
in the Barrow valley. (14)
8. Vine about right for small Donegal fishing village at the mouth of the
Eaney River where Tom Nesbitt, inventor of the whale harpoon was born. (5)
9. "Widgery didgery dok, the army ran ----. The judge said 'No, it
wasn't so; they didn't run they wok'" Derry street rhyme following
the Widgery Tribunal into Bloody Sunday in 1971. (4)
11. Join one to use one, of course. (4)
12. This produces moving air for the devotee. (3)
14. "Bernard Shaw hasn't an ----- in the world, and none of his friends
like him." Oscar Wilde. (5)
15. Lover gets disturbed after note and will plead in a self-humiliating
way. (6)
16. He will put her after us when showing where the seats are. (5)
18. Mary got confused by the military. (4)
19. Kneel, try net. (anag.) Principal Donegal town near the head of Lough
Swilly. (11)
20. Ireland of the poets and songwriters gets in after Queen Elizabeth.
(4)
21. Search recklessly and rob firearm coming back from Listowel firing range.
(5)
23. Speaks formally even though sore at mix-up in Kilfenora tests. (6)
24. Can no letters be enough for the law of the church in Lucan only? (5)
25. Of that family in Spancil kinship. (3)
27. Small metal spike fixing wood that's lain up in Ballina illness. (4)
28. Christina comes around at last and is against it. (4)
29. Starting softly, alto goes to pieces for author of "The Republic".
(5)
30. Neil and colonel get ordered to see barrister who secured Catholic Emancipation
for Ireland in1829. (6,8)
DOWN
2. Was jealous of the end I've contrived. (6)
3. Nothing grey about north Wexford town near the Wicklow border with a
1798 Memorial Cross. (5)
4. Flea hops over the page in Rathkeale afterwards. (4)
5. Small number on at midday. (4)
6. Lied very badly about the birth. (8)
7. Fit women live up here in small Tyrone plantation town near the Fermanagh
border. (12)
10. Her flag team wavers in Derry market town near Lough Neagh, and angling
centre for Moyola River. (11)
12. Ann shall by no other means go to the largest town in south Donegal
on the banks of the Erne. (12)
15. Agree certainly to include 29 across's country. (6)
16. Speaks in truest fashion. (6)
17. Farm layer seen in Glenbeigh enclosure. (3)
18. "That passed the time. It would have passed in --- case. Yes but
not so rapidly." Beckett. (3)
19. Bail into disorder and produce a drink fit for the gods. (8)
22. Settle the land and restrict its possession in tale of chaos. (6)
24. Fowl with its head covered? (5)
25. Towards the centre in Dublin town. (4)
26. A thousand times in front metrically when 49 go into knockout. (4)
