Above Bob Gordon's Bog Comments

Gene, the Irish indeed used it a lot, My father in 1952 used it while going around the house mumbling about the bog above Bob Gordon's bog. Never could find out anything about it except it was in rural Ireland from whence he was expelled by the English for running guns for the IRA as a teen circa 1922 after two years in prison. He would turn of a movie on TV if he heard an English accent. I was an Irish dancer to please my father and had to dance at benefits for the Widow Murphy but all the money went back to Ireland to arm the IRA. Perhaps your recall the Irish blowing up bridges but always after the English were no longer on them. Drove the poor man nuts. He did not live long enough to learn my son won a Rhodes Scholarship and studied two years at Oxford. He would not have been happy, be the saddle mighty, another saying I never understood.

Traipsing Is that a Gaelic expression?