#generation were mag. i doubt i can find what was more common in the 1790s and my granny isn't from the same part of cork either
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Sometimes I think about the fact that one day I just decided, with nothing to back me up at all, that as a child James Barry went by ‘Peg’.
#greta was another contender but I think peg is youthful and less feminine#i have since asked my granny (80s) and she said that in cork most margarets of her generation went by peg but most of her mother's#generation were mag. i doubt i can find what was more common in the 1790s and my granny isn't from the same part of cork either#my own post#dr james barry#i called him Little Peg Bulkeley in one poem i wrote and it really stuck with me#maybe he was small as a child - as a man he is often called short and slight - and therefore he was little peg. maybe there was another#peg who lived near him that was big peg or tall peg or long peg#(my great grandfather edmond lived next door to another edmond with the same surname so he was known as long ned cos he was tall)#my writing about him keeps jumping between academic (where is the line between man & myth) and fiction and this is defintely fiction based#it turns out that building upon the myth is fun
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