Definition of Shanachie

1. Noun. (context: Ireland) storyteller ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Shanachie

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Shanachie

shampooers
shampooey
shampooing
shampoolike
shampoos
shamrock
shamrock pea
shamrocklike
shamrocks
shams
shamshir
shamus
shamuses
shan't
shana tova
shanachie (current term)
shanachies
shand
shandies
shandite
shandries
shandry
shandrydan
shandrydans
shands
shandy
shandygaff
shandygaffs
shanghai
shanghaied

Literary usage of Shanachie

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Collected Works of George Moore by George Moore (1918)
"to the shanachie of Connaught. Didn't you come out of Connaught yourself? he asked, and from the heart of it, from the county of Mayo as I did myself? ..."

2. Irish Plays and Playwrights by Cornelius Weygandt (1913)
"If you doubt that he was shanachie, not druid, compare the two legends in ... In other words, it is in the very manner of the shanachie of the Dark Ages, ..."

3. Beverages, Past and Present: An Historical Sketch of Their Production by Edward Randolph Emerson (1908)
"... feast all persons left the hall except three: A shanachie or historian, ... under the direction of the shanachie, hung them on the hooks according to ..."

4. Beverages, Past and Present: An Historical Sketch of Their Production by Edward Randolph Emerson (1908)
"... feast all persons left the hall except three: A shanachie or historian, ... under the direction of the shanachie, hung them on the hooks according to ..."

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