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1034:(or Saint Canice, or Newcourt). Prim claimed that "mutual litigations, squabbles, assaults and batteries, with the accompanying imprisonments, fines and law costs", which brought both near to bankruptcy, lasted from 1377 to "the end of the seventeenth century". He claimed to have a paper on "the natural history of the Kilkenny cats" in preparation, and cited a
1583:. The Tipperarymen were winning, and advancing towards the Kilkenny–Tipperary border, when they were attacked by Kilkennymen and women, who fought like cats. The Tipperary followers retaliated, and picked up field stones and hurled them at their opponents, who had to retreat, the Tipperary team then being enabled to take the ball into their own territory.
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souls,’ in which the devil and angel are supposed to contend for the soul. The author thinks this may be one outcome of the contest between Night and
Twilight in Mythology; but, if the connection can be traced, it would probably prove to be derived from the struggle between the two angels of Death, one variation of which is associated with the legend of
1066:.) Prim's paper about the cats story was not published, though in one of 1870 he states, "Soon after the municipal body of Kilkenny became involved in an expensive lawsuit with the neighbouring Corporation of Irishtown, concerning questions of privilege and superior authority within the latter borough"; while in 1857 he wrote that
920:'s 1843 satire of Philadelphia publishers, Irishman Phelix Phelligrim exclaims, when his associates are cursing and red-faced with anger, "Its in a fine humor ye are, gentleman! The Kilkenny cats was a mere circumstance to ye!" Leo Richard Ward in 1939 described someone as "contrary and mean as a Kilkenny cat". In 2009, a
128:, and placing some boards over the mouth, left them to their amusement. Next morning I went to see the conclusion of the fight, and what d'ye think I saw?"– "One of the cats dead, probably," —replied one of the company.— "No by Ja—s! there was nothing left in the pit, but the two tails and a bit of flue!"
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In a company, consisting of naval officers, the discourse happened to turn on the ferocity of small animals; when an Irish gentleman present stated his opinion to be, that a
Kilkenny cat, of all animals, was the most ferocious; and added, "I can prove my assertion, by a fact within my own knowledge:—
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Real life in
Ireland : or, The day and night scenes, rovings, rambles, and sprees, bulls, blunders, bodderation and blarney, of Brian Boru, esq., and his elegant friend Sir Shawn O'Dogherty; exhibiting a real picture of characters, manners, etc., in high and low life in Dublin and various parts
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in 1822: "On the summit we saw a cottage, into which, it being vacant during a time of very deep snow, seven wolves found their way; the snow closing the door they could not escape. Some time after, one wolf was discovered there and the heads of six others, so that it was evident that they had eaten
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One night, in the summer time, all the cats in the city and county of
Kilkenny, were absent from their "local habitations;" and next morning, the plain alluded to (I regret I have not the name) was found covered with thousands of slain tabbies; and the report was, that almost all the cats in Ireland
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Kilkenny, that several cats had been locked up in a room, for a fortnight together, without food, and, upon opening the door, there was nothing found but the tail of one of them. Surely Mr. O'C. must have been dreaming of this native story, when he made his arguments thus to
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At three matches were fought on the first day ... and before the third of them was finished (on which bets ran very high), dinner was announced in the inn where the battle was fought. The company agreed ... to lock up the room, leaving the key in trust to Mr. Curran, who protested to God, he never
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In the absence of information it may, perhaps, be allowable to guess that this effusion might give some clue to the origin of the story of the world-famous "Kilkenny Cats," who ate each other to the tails! The first promulgator of this remarkable battle of the cats has never, that we are aware of,
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or crosspost. Their commander forbade the practice, but they carried on in secret. When the commander was heard approaching, a soldier hastily cut through the cats' tails, allowing them to escape. The commander asked about the hanging tail ends, and the soldier averred that the cats had eaten each
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Gubernatis has a very curious speculation concerning the origin of our familiar fable the Kilkenny Cats, which he traces to the German superstition which dreads the combat between cats as presaging death to one who witnesses it; and this belief he finds reflected in the Tuscan child’s ‘game of
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Angelo de
Gubernatis, too, is infected with this familiar and somewhat silly method of trying to explain all folk-stories symbolically. In "Zoological Mythology, or the Legends of Animals," he gives it as his belief that the celebrated fable of the Kilkenny Cats may mean the mythological contest
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One day a lady visitor came to
Kilkenny Castle and brought with her three fat mice. The owner of the Castle never noticed anything until the place was full of mice. There were mice everywhere. They advertised for cats. Soon the castle was full of cats. The is how Kilkenny got the name "Kilkenny
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published an original song in 1916 called "The
Kilkenny Cats" based on the Juverna story. Other poetic adaptations include "The Kilkenny Legend" (Harvey Austin Fuller, 1873); "The Kilkenny Cats" (Anne L. Huber, 1873); "The Kilkenny Cats" (Laurence Winfield Scott, 1880); "The Cats av Kilkenny"
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Thirty years ago I made inquiries amongst the "oldest inhabitants" of my acquaintance then living, and their unanimous testimony was, that the story of the
Kilkenny cats was in vogue as long as they could remember, and the recollections of some of them extended to nearly half a century before
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in 1841 was printed "The Terrific Legend Of The Kilkenny Cats" by "C.B."; a 24-line poem in which there are six tomcats, owned and underfed by a drunk woman named O'Flyn; they resolve to kill and eat her, then turn on each other. A musical setting by Barry Kay was recorded in 1951 by
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cannot agree, let them fight it out between themselves, even should they carry on the war till both are reduced to the condition of the far famed Kilkenny cats, one of whom came off with his head, and to the other of whom a tail only remained at the conclusion of the
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was so shocked, that his head hung heavy on his shoulders, and his heart was sunk within him, on entering with the company into the room, and finding that the cats had actually eaten each other up, save some little bits of tails which were scattered round the room.
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of Kilkenny from 1694, were on opposing sides of the dispute. C. A. Ward suggested in 1891 that Prim's explanation is "simply a tale invented after the fable relating to the cats had got into circulation". Prim's theory was bolstered in 1943 by publication, in a
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in 1864, as having been heard "in Kilkenny, forty years ago, from a gentleman of unquestioned veracity". The story holds that a group of bored soldiers stationed in Kilkenny held fights between two cats tied together by their tails and suspended from a
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In other words, to use my familiar expression, it was and is a Kilkenny-cat business, in which the North, being the biggest cat and having the largest tail, ought to have the endurance to maintain the contest after the Southern gentleman was all
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in particular) in Ireland, who fought each other so ferociously that only their tails remained at the end of the battle. Often the absurd implication is that they have eaten each other. In the nineteenth century the Kilkenny cats were a common
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of the story was "taken from another, a well-known one, which is shortly this. Into a kennel of hounds, a dog of another species, did, one night, accidentally make its way. In the morning nothing was found of him but his tail." In the
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had joined in the contest; as many of the slain had collars on their necks, which showed that they had collected from all quarters of the island. The cause of the quarrel, however, was not stated; but it seemed to have been a sort of
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In February 1647 another General Assembly was convoked at Kilkenny, but the disputes were now beyond composition, and the meetings were so disorderly that the expression "quarrelling like Kilkenny cats" has passed into the English
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The Irish part of the company saw the drift, ridicule, and impossibility of the narrative, and laughed immoderately, while the English part yawned and laughed, seeing others laugh, and sought relief in each other's
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of 1690. Prim agrees that the episode occurred with Hessians in 1798, but states that their sport was influenced by a story already proverbial. In other accounts, the soldiers were the regular garrison at
529:, form the reasonable expectation, that, being, 'two such, we shall have none shortly, for one will kill the other;' and like the celebrated Kilkenny cats, leave no other vestige to designate the tribe of
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The Poem on Darkness is a mighty strange one. ... I was vastly amused with the two surviving gentlemen who stare at one another till they drop down dead. I think it beats the story of the Kilkenny Cats
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Trimsharp's account of himself: a sketch of his life, together with a brief history of the education of the blind, and their achievements, to which is added a collection of poems composed by himself
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for "combatants who fight until they annihilate each other"; to "fight like Kilkenny cats" means "to engage in a mutually destructive struggle". Early instances include: (from 1814) an account in
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recounted a tale told to him "more than thirty years" earlier when he was "very young" by "a Kilkenny gentleman", about a battle "some forty years before" on "a plain near that ancient city":
190:, I saw two big ram-cats fight a duel for love, your honour; and they fought, and fought, till they ate each other up. Devil burn me, if I lie, your honour! I went after them into the gutter! "
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was made in Kilkenny in 2018. It is described as a "modern reworking of the story" and premiered at the Kerry Film Festival with the tagline "Each thought there was one cat too many..."
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It was Matt who first told us of the Kilkenny cats, which the Earl of Ormond's jester, in a fit of jealousy, tied together by the tails and flung over a clothes-line 'to fight it out'
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Although Redmond states "This has nothing to do with the story of the two famous Kilkenny cats", the two have occasionally been linked subsequently. A similar story was told in
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in 1850 conceded that this was the most commonly accepted theory ("This ludicrous anecdote has, no doubt, been generally looked upon as an absurdity of the Joe Miller class").
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Four Festivals and a City: A critique of Actor-Network Theory as an approach to understanding the emergence and development of Flagship Festivals in Kilkenny from 1964 to 2004
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by saying, "The government was watching with amazement the director and his deputy fight like Kilkenny cats." Indian media explained the simile in their reports on the case.
214:, an Irishman present exclaimed: 'a tiger be hang'd! Why, sir, I once myself saw two Kilkenny cats fight till they devoured each other up, excepting the very tips of their
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The account of the battle between the two "Kilkenny cats," in which they fought until they eat up every thing but the tips of each other's tail, may be regarded a pretty
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adapts the Juverna story to its 15th-century setting. Frank Pickbone is fooled in an unnamed Irish village by the dangling tails, until the title character disabuses him.
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shall not be denied. Deny me the writ of habeas corpus, and I will fight with gun, sword, cannon, whirlwind, and thunder, until they are used up like the Kilkenny cats."
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dialogue in which Jemmy O'Kain tells Pat M'Hone or Mahone that none of the great battles from myth and history compare to the one he witnessed "in Kilkenny, down the
1526:, Ofeig says, "And with me it has fared after the fashion of wolves, who eat each other up until they come to the tail, not knowing till then what they are about".
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comedy festival has been held in Kilkenny annually since 1995. The "Laughing Cat" logo of a cat hanging from a rope by its tail reflects the Juverna origin story.
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was "Mouse-lord of Kilkenny, slain by a huge cat, Banghaisgidheach"; this is apparently a misreading of Joyce, who describes Midgna's (human) wife as a
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is also used more generally for a fierce fighter or quarrelsome person. These senses are now rather dated. In the later twentieth century the motif was
831:(1837, 1843) and S. Gerlis (2001) draw analogy with litigants who are both ruined by legal costs. It was often used in accounts of factionalism within
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to destroy one another. In an ancient Persian picture in my possession, animal monsters are shown devouring each other, while their proffered victim,
91:; some early versions are set elsewhere than Kilkenny. Nevertheless, theories have been offered seeking a historical basis for the story's setting.
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This form of cat fighting is attested, usually instigated by boys, from the 18th to the early 20th century. A similar anecdote was attributed to
778:, conceding, "I must confess the casual outsider who simply read the headlines might think it was a collection of Kilkenny cats fighting". In the
389:—probably the quadrupeds took up the quarrels of their masters, as at that period there was very ill feeling between the people of both provinces.
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A lone Kilkenny cat may be invoked to symbolise ferocity or vigour without the implication of mutual destruction. In an 1825 humorous verse,
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might be relevant; this was disproved by an 1868 reply in the successor journal explaining that the episode (a version of the folktale "
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1113:'s 1894 biography suggests the alleged dispute between Englishtown and Irishtown was still in progress in Swift's time and was between
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Parker, Horatio W. (Horatio William); McConathy, Osbourne; Birge, Edward B. (Edward Bailey); Miessner, W. Otto (William Otto) (1918).
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In the 1935 Championship it was Kilkenny's turn again and Mattie Burke's second of three All-Ireland semi-finals against the 'Cats'.
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by omitting "excepting their tails and some scraps of their nails". With standardised spelling it has been included in 20th-century
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in 1888, where the pieces are configured in a cat shape; Loyd accompanied the problem with a story of quarreling professors.
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I wish the confounded revolution gentlemen would, like Kilkenny Cats, fight till nothing but the tails are left.
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burnt at the stake after admitting relations with a demon which variously took the form of a dog, a cat, and an
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responded that he had heard such a story told of many places in Ireland, but not of Kilkenny. In 1863,
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Clayton, Richard S. (8 November 1998). "Names are 'Cultural Storage Chests,' but Sometimes Barriers".
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released "The Amusing Game of the Kilkenny Cats" in 1890 and "Rex and the Kilkenny Cats Game" in 1892.
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The History, Architecture, and Antiquities of the Cathedral Church of St. Canice, Kilkenny
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there was no more left of them than Curran described to have remained of the Kilkenny cats
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than any other county, has been called "the Cats" in newspapers since at least the 1980s.
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Nay, an there were two such, we should have none / shortly, for one would kill the other.
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Malcomson, Robert; Graves, James (1868). "Notice of a Book Entitled "Beware the Cat"".
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Prim, John G. A. (1870). "The Corporation Insignia and Olden Civic State of Kilkenny".
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Name into word; proper names that have become common property; a discursive dictionary
5456:"Chapter 7: Wherein Mrs. Comstock Manipulates Margaret and Billy Acquires a Residence"
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Burns, John (16 December 2018). "The tail of Kilkenny's fighting cats puzzles India".
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The story was sufficiently well known in the 19th century to be used frequently as a
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The Civil War Years in Utah: The Kingdom of God and the Territory That Did Not Fight
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1152:(Hogarth, 1751) depicting two cats tied and suspended by a rope to fight each other.
310:, he was determined to put an end to it, by the incredible story of the Sligo cats.
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swallow themselves, after destroying each other—but the tail of one of them remains
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1481:, is unharmed. The idea is a natural one, and hardly requires comparative tracing.
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1256:'s 1963 poem "Beyond the Pale" recounts the story of "Dame Kyttler", continuing:
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916:" says he was "mad as a Kilkenny cat" when a rival came to court his beloved. In
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Settle, Michael (26 July 1999). "Dewar turfs out tales of Kilkenny cat fights".
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papers, of a 1596 arbitration between the corporations over markets, merchants'
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in 1904, the answer to which was prefaced, "Those of us who ever had an English
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Bradley, John (2000). Simms, Anngret; Clarke, H.B.; Gillespie, Raymond (eds.).
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2025:" = "Light down, such as rises from cotton, fur, etc.; very fine lint or hair".
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7947:
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7196:
Lee, Benny; The Stargazers; Nat Temple and His Orchestra; Kay, Barry (1951).
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5954:
5908:
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5274:
The Curse of Cromwell: A History of the Ironside Conquest of Ireland, 1649–53
5028:
5017:
The Journal of the Royal Historical and Archaeological Association of Ireland
4822:
4746:
4554:
4247:"About Certain Eligible Cases of Mutual Extermination; a Cue from Shakspeare"
4111:
4003:
3899:
The life and letters of George Gordon Meade, major-general United States army
3794:
3741:. Collected Works. Vol. 5. Lawrence & Wishart. pp. 105–107: 106
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1393:(the same three, Prim's credited to Swift; "probably none of them is true");
1248:. This cat has occasionally been linked to the Kilkenny cats story. In 1857,
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The Journal of the Kilkenny and South-East of Ireland Archaeological Society
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The Journal of the Kilkenny and South-East of Ireland Archaeological Society
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Indeed, so mortal is your reciprocal hostility, that your victims may, with
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in 1823 hoped "the French and Spaniards war like Kilkenny cats"; likewise
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124:, and willing to see the result of a long battle, I drove them into a deep
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84:
7706:"Why Athens? Investigations into the site of an American music revolution"
5778:(in Irish and English). Dublin: Gill. pp. 118–128: 125 IV, 127 n.1, 2
4403:
2022:
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Doan, James E. (1982). "Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh as Craftsman and Trickster".
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3933:. Vol. Period I Volume 5. Salt Lake City, UT: Deseret News. p.
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in the 1880s, claim the original Kilkenny cats were tied together by the
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The Literary Gazette and Journal of Belles Lettres, Arts, Sciences, Etc.
5995:
5962:
5713:
5470:
New York State Probation Commission (1925). "Nineteenth Annual Report".
5036:
2871:
2515:. Embodiment and Emancipation. Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies,
1958:, in Greek myth fought each other till all (or all but five) were killed
1308:("Can this word mean a great mouse?") and Dobbs ("a demon or a giant").
432:
7619:
5943:
The Journal of the Historical and Archaeological Association of Ireland
5131:. Vol. VI: 1584–1603. Irish Manuscripts Commission. pp. 97–99
4945:(in French). Vol. 7: Quadrupeds. L'Imprimerie royale. p. 330.
4151:"The Kilkenny Cats; or, old and young Ireland "Coming to the Scratch.""
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as a huge cat; in contrast to Brian O'Looney ("some sort of monster")
7307:. Philadelphia, PA: Claxton, Remsen, and Haffelfinger. pp. 90–91
6441:
3002:
A New Miscellany-at-Law: Yet Another Diversion for Lawyers and Others
2613:
Walker's Hibernian Magazine, or, Compendium of Entertaining Knowledge
1907:, an ancient symbol depicting a serpent or dragon eating its own tail
1904:
1794:
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1284:" as having been slain by Midgna's wife at a place named Derc-Ferna.
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Famous battel of the catts, in the province of Ulster, June 25, 1668
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Brewton, Sara Westbrook; Brewton, John Edmund; Fetz, Ingrid (1965).
6522:
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4764:
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A Kilkenny cat!" exclaimed Mr. O'Dowd. "Why they eat one another up!
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come to a Kilkenny fight? I guess Our Cat has got the longest tail!"
6345:(in Greek and Latin). Vol. VII. Frankfurt: Wechel. p. 227
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7280:. University of Michigan: American Verse Project. pp. 125–126
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each other, and that the surviving one had proved the strongest."
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described a schoolgirl arrested for fighting as a "Kilkenny cat".
4376:
4341:
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1970:
poem about a similar fight between a gingham dog and a calico cat
1955:
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The earliest attested version of the story is from June 1807, in
4574:– via The Early Writings of George Lippard, 1842-43, UCLA.
3895:"To Mrs. George G. Meade: Camp Pierpont, Va., November 24, 1861"
2743:
The Chaplet of Comus; or Feast of Sentiment, and Festival of Wit
1789:"Mighty Mouse and the Kilkenny Cats" is a 1945 cartoon in which
103:, a collection of jokes and humorous pieces copied by "W.T." of
4287:. Vol. 1 (3rd ed.). Paris: Calmann-Lévy. p. 301.
4102:
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521:" to the story; and a riposte to disagreeing literary critics:
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87:. The original story is attested from 1807 as a simple joke or
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6359:"Book 11: Convivial & Satirical Epigrams; No.357—Palladas"
4744:
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7080:"What's In A Name? Stories behind the names of Benzie County"
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4910:
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4527:. University of Illinois Press. pp. xxix, 462–471: 468.
4127:
Paddy and Mr. Punch: Connections in Irish and English History
1609:
1411:
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1088:
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ate each other, the survivor having mutilated legs and tail.
742:
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291:
206:
An 1811 joke book from Boston in the United States included:
198:!" says I, but no Tommy or Phely was there: I found only the
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6991:
5732:
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5298:. In Ring, Trudy; Watson, Noelle; Schellinger, Paul (eds.).
4012:. Vol. XIII. Washington, DC: Gales & Seaton. c.1375
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210:
On a gentleman's reading an account of a tiger fight in the
7819:"Kilkenny film 'Two Cats' premieres at Kerry Film Festival"
7412:
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1026:
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187:
5574:. Vol. 8. Oxford University Press. 1950. p. 217.
4088:
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2091:) and "Ye Faire Citie" (the motto under its coat of arms).
1366:
Authorities which discuss various origin theories include
1333:
slain in Ireland" reported in a synopsis of the 1584 book
969:
The simplest theory for the story is that it is merely an
439:, County Leitrim, tell of a cat battle in Locan Dhee near
120:
I once," said he, "saw two of these animals fighting in a
6674:
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4523:. In Mabbott, Thomas Ollive; Kewer, Eleanor D. (eds.).
4223:
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1121:. In fact, Irishtown corporation was controlled by the
1054:
of Irishtown, objected to Kilkenny corporation levying
347:'What!' said Brian, 'then I suppose the cats ran away?'
246:
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6831:
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5157:. Vol. X. New York: Dodd, Mead. 1903. p. 691
3406:. Vol. 2: C. Oxford: Clarendon Press. p. 167
2984:. London: James Harper and Richard Milliken. pp.
2142:, begun in 2000, has not yet updated the entry (s.v. "
1548:, the fact of death is often in play in Irish bulls".
6998:. Sacramento, CA: Dept. of State Printing. pp.
6719:. The Mini Ha-Ha Joke Books. London: Wolfe. p.
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4521:"Why the Little Frenchman Wears His Hand in a Sling"
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2331:
Longman English-Chinese dictionary of English idioms
1874:, included one of a "Kilkenny Cat", shown holding a
1821:"Wild Cats of Kilkenny" is an instrumental track on
1797:
from a gang of cats whose leader's name is Kilkenny.
541:, allowing one's enemies to defeat each other, or a
361:
6231:
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6214:
Journal of a Tour in France, Switzerland, and Italy
5893:"Notice of a Rare Book, Entitled, "Beware the Cat""
2087:Kilkenny city is nicknamed "the Marble City" (from
1748:came in", stopping them from hunting wild animals.
1263:The black cats of Kilkenny. They fought for scales
7888:
7817:
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4766:. Clarinbridge, Co. Galway, Ireland. p. 109.
4320:M. Tx. (20 September 1904). de Rash, Carle (ed.).
4201:. Punch Publications Limited: 192. 26 October 1878
3897:. In Meade, George; Meade, George Gordon (eds.).
3462:
3316:. Harvard University Press. p. 142, note 19.
1267:And their descendants never sit by the fire-side.
981:of the phrase "Kilkenny cats". John G. A. Prim in
6995:Teacher's manual for the Progressive music series
5832:"On Ancient Historic Tales in the Irish Language"
4560:"The Spermaceti Papers: The Grey Ham in a Pucker"
3404:A New English Dictionary On Historical Principles
3313:Why the Little Frenchman wears his Arm in a Sling
2639:The spirit of Irish wit, or Post-chaise companion
2034:Curran was in Cheltenham in 1810 if not earlier.
1934:"The Battle of the Cats"; 1634 mock epic poem by
1541:, is sometimes conflated with the Kilkenny cats.
1422:seeks to find parallels with folklore elsewhere.
1272:In 1986 Terence Sheehy suggested a link with the
1265:Of market fish, left nothing but their own tails
1070:, as bishop of Ossory from 1693, and his brother
533:to which you belong, than an odd tooth or a claw!
501:; (from 1816) the critique of Andrew O'Callaghan
132:The tale was repeated verbatim the next month in
67:for any conflict likely to ruin both combatants.
7945:
7891:Harmony from Discords: A Life of Sir John Denham
7670:
7408:"The Cat of Kilkenny; or, The Forest of Blarney"
6801:The Riverside Anthology of Children's Literature
6158:Cashman, Seamus; Gaffney, Sean (2 March 2015) .
6096:(2nd ed.). Gill and Macmillan. p. 46.
5413:"The Two Cats; or, The Principle of Retaliation"
4306:. Vol. 2. Paris: Calmann-Lévy. p. 207.
4070:. Vol. I. London: Henry Colburn. p. 42
2999:Megarry, Robert (2005). Garner, Bryan A. (ed.).
2848:
2787:
2785:
2469:
2467:
2387:"Illustrated Guide to Ireland's Eastern Legends"
419:in 1898 published a version from John Kearns of
6930:Smith, Elmer Boyd; Elmendorf, Lawrence (1920).
6850:Bailey, Carolyn Sherwin; Newell, Peter (1905).
5940:
5450:
5328:
5326:
4949:Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc comte de (1792).
3968:
3966:
3647:(51). London: W. Strange: 201. 24 November 1832
1493:between night and twilight. God pity these men!
1296:near Kilkenny city. Sheehy follows Praeger and
1022:Prim proposed that the cats were originally an
897:as being "tied to the tail of a Kilkenny cat".
640:as "a modern version of the Kilkenny Cats". In
7754:
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5050:Graves, James; Prim, John G. Augustus (1857).
4957:. Vol. VI. London: J.S. Barr. p. 219
4355:P.L. (10 October 1904). de Rash, Carle (ed.).
3901:. Vol. 1. New York: Scribner. p. 230
3851:
3849:
3847:
1763:The Cat of Kilkenny; or, The Forest of Blarney
1680:illustration for Mack's "The Cat-Fight" (1824)
1497:"R.C." in 1874 suggested a comparison with an
1101:in 1903 claimed this allegory was a satire by
1030:of Kilkenny (or Englishtown, or Hightown) and
875:in 1860s correspondence, prompting a query to
25:"The Eastern Kilkennies — may the knot hold":
7140:New-York Mirror, and Ladies' Literary Gazette
6189:. Vol. II. Project Gutenberg. p. 64
6182:
5934:
5727:
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5508:
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5174:
5172:
3862:. University of Oklahoma Press. p. xii.
3459:Buccleuch, Charles Montagu-Scott, 4th Duke of
3372:. Oxford: Oxford Clarendon Press. p. 533
2782:
2464:
1389:(Prim, Juverna, and Redmond's great battle);
1375:Brewer's Dictionary of Irish Phrase and Fable
1166:other. In Juverna's version, the troops were
564:wished 'the fate of the "Kilkenny cats"' on "
115:. Under the heading "Kilkenny Cats" it runs:
7386:Character Sketches in Rhyme and Other Verses
7146:(14). G. P. Morris: 110–111. 30 October 1824
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5393:Edinburgh Magazine & Literary Miscellany
5366:. University of Michigan Press. p. 41.
5323:
4943:Histoire naturelle, générale et particuliére
4668:"The Irish "Driver"—The Story of Tim O'Hara"
4641:. Lonely Planet Publications. 1996. p.
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3252:
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2055:wie die beiden Katzen von Kilkenny in Irland
2053:
1619:And aich thought there was one cat too many.
1261:Soon afterwards, they say, that demon sired
1156:Another theory was reported by "Juverna" in
870:
578:in 1832 urging British neutrality after the
16:Two cats who fought leaving only their tails
7749:
7509:"Recommended Shorts; Cartoons and Comedies"
7504:. 20th Century Fox. Event occurs at 0m36s.
7474:
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6763:. Vol. 813. New York: Dutton. p.
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5125:"121. The Liberties of Irishtown, Kilkenny"
4878:. s1 v2 (35). Oxford University Press: 71.
4865:
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4861:
4859:
4839:"The nonsensical origin of 'Kilkenny cats'"
3844:
3710:Berryman, Clifford Kennedy (29 June 1941).
3222:Swayne, George Carless (5 September 1863).
2992:
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2722:. London: Samuel Tipper: 538. December 1808
2269:
1546:the cake both eaten and miraculously intact
1317:
1288:is usually interpreted as "mouse lord" and
912:, "Sir Pathrick O'Grandison, Barronitt, of
790:, justified the government's suspension of
770:, in 1999 denied media talk of a rift with
423:which situated the battle on Scald Hill in
79:and fighting spirit, and "the Cats" is the
75:by Kilkenny people as a positive symbol of
7895:. University of California Press. p.
7846:
7549:"Mr Robert Shallow v Mr Sampson Stockfish"
7499:
7167:"The Terrific Legend Of The Kilkenny Cats"
6938:. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons. p. 44
6436:. Folklore of Ireland Society: 54–89: 60.
6054:A hog on ice and other curious expressions
5720:
5545:Curtis, William Eleroy (9 October 2013) .
5169:
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4740:. Gill & Macmillan. pp. 112, 164.
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2888:Joe Miller's jests. With copious additions
2878:
1952:— by printers' apprentices in 1730s France
537:One context for the simile was advocating
281:
7916:
7671:Unterberger, Richie; Hicks, Samb (1999).
7432:
7055:. Chicago: H. A. Sumner. pp. 208–209
6780:
6462:
6123:
6002:. Philadelphia, PA: Henry Altemus Company
5848:
5790:
4589:. New York: Sheed & Ward. p. 32.
4420:
4361:L'Intermédiaire des Chercheurs et Curieux
4326:L'Intermédiaire des Chercheurs et Curieux
4168:
3972:
3457:
3305:
3303:
3279:
2791:
2689:
2494:
2333:. Hong Kong: Pearson. 1995. p. 164.
2206:", a "Fat Cat" and a pair of "Cool Cats".
2102:Municipal Corporations (Ireland) Act 1840
1800:The Kilkenny Beer Festival, sponsored by
1378:in plumping for the Juverna theory); the
1042:for the 1377 date. (The entry notes that
878:L'Intermédiaire des chercheurs et curieux
754:, "The constitution of the United States
268:jocularly sources the story to Miller's
256:to include it was in 1836 (verbatim from
7388:. San Francisco: Western. pp. 84–86
7319:Kilcup, Karen L.; Sorby, Angela (2014).
6960:. New York: Checkerboard Press. p.
6471:. collected by Alice Mullan. Ballydaniel
6390:. Harvard University Press. p. 192.
6020:
5760:
5682:
5664:Sheehy, Terence (1986). "Dunmore Cave".
5410:
5209:"Constituencies: St Canice or Irishtown"
4856:
4762:Browne, Michael (1987). "Mattie Burke".
4497:. Edinburgh: William Blackwood. p.
4456:
3709:
3592:Napier, William Francis Patrick (1857).
3190:
3032:
2935:
2641:. London: Thomas Tegg. 1812. p. 225
2589:. Rogerson & Tuxford: 175. July 1807
2557:The European Magazine, and London Review
1672:
1357:Richard Butler, 1st Viscount Mountgarret
1141:
952:All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championships
668:
450:
94:
20:
7954:Fictional characters introduced in 1807
7582:
7361:. St. Louis: John Burns. pp. 68–76
7227:. London: Novello, Ewer. pp. 73–76
6911:
6891:
6803:. Houghton Mifflin. p. 75 No. 22.
6798:
6338:
6207:
6058:. New York: Harper & Row. pp.
5968:
5769:
5691:
5617:
5389:"Mankind Naturally Addicted to Cruelty"
5386:
5332:
4975:
4955:Barr's Buffon. Buffon's Natural History
4836:
4819:
4694:. Geography Publications. p. 375.
4665:
4601:"Schoolgirl fight: 15-year-old charged"
4525:Tales and Sketches; Volume 1: 1831–1842
4348:
4310:
4297:
4275:
4036:"Chapter 1.6.I. Make the Constitution."
4030:
3855:
3712:"A modern version of the Kilkenny Cats"
3534:
3363:
3197:Ross, Charles H. (21 September 2013) .
3170:
3161:
3118:
3091:
2998:
2923:. Vol. III. R. Bentley. p. 97
2817:
2815:
2690:Gilliland, Thomas (1808). "Chapter V".
2433:
2346:
2308:. London: Richard Bentley: 391–404: 395
2218:
1670:published an expanded version in 1871.
1369:Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
666:"as the two Kilkenny cats in Ireland".
182:, an 1808 satire on the theme of love:
7946:
7859:
7703:
7645:
7271:
7077:
7046:
7020:
6950:Wright, Blanche Fisher (April 1991) .
6949:
6756:A century of humorous verse, 1850–1950
6710:
6640:
6385:
6260:
5993:
5836:Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy
5663:
5645:
5604:. Dublin: M. F. Moynihan. p. 18.
5584:
5544:
5359:
5119:
4948:
4935:Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc comte de
4933:
4761:
4743:
4689:
4438:. J.B. Lippincott Company. p. 585
4389:
4319:
4124:
4101:
4002:
3954:
3793:
3760:Marx, Karl; Engels, Friedrich (2017).
3733:Marx, Karl; Engels, Friedrich (2010).
3677:
3591:
3390:
3300:
3221:
3005:. Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 303.
2884:
2659:
2505:
1866:on the topic of cats, commissioned by
1666:as "There Were Two Cats at Kilkenny".
895:UK's Cold-War security links to the US
7886:
7815:
7758:
7618:
7379:
7359:The Mooted Question, and other rhymes
7352:
7298:
6870:
6535:
6515:
6400:
6356:
6270:. Project Gutenberg. pp. 130–131
6162:. O'Brien Press. p. 38 No. 350.
6089:
5881:
5801:
5731:
5434:
5293:
5271:
5233:
5178:
4735:
4627:
4429:
4244:
4226:. Edinburgh: W. Blackwood. p. 50
4081:
4060:
3987:
3923:
3889:
3426:"Wasp and Avon — From a London Paper"
3280:Hughes, Michael G.; Mc Cabe, Barney.
3203:. Project Gutenberg. pp. 200–202
3152:
2349:"Proper Names in English Phraseology"
2270:Simons, Gary; Leary, Patrick (2016).
1629:Instead of two cats there wan't any.
1617:There wonst was two cats in Kilkenny;
1219:10th (North Lincoln) Regiment of Foot
553:opposition to the 1817 tax reform of
7589:The Pogues' Rum, Sodomy and the Lash
7456:. The United States Chess Federation
7451:
7164:
7114:
6915:Mother Goose: the old nursery rhymes
6835:. New York: Bramhall House. p.
6557:
6427:
6318:
6294:"Chapter Five. The Cat in Folklore."
6049:
5887:
5865:10.1093/acref/9780198609674.001.0001
5734:Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie
5077:
5014:
4869:
4584:
4487:
4354:
3537:"Romeo and Juliet, Act III, Scene 1"
3196:
3058:
2950:
2916:
2821:
2812:
2473:
1215:Bishop of Ossory, Ferns and Leighlin
1135:between supporters and opponents of
155:in Dublin. It reappeared in 1812 in
107:from unnamed previous publications.
7546:
7435:"Chess, cats and free-flowing beer"
7433:Henderson, John (6 December 2001).
7305:The nursery rattle for little folks
7248:"The Kilkenny cats [music]"
6409:. Sveinbjorn Thordarson. Chapter 10
5808:. London: Longmans, Green. p.
5805:A social history of ancient Ireland
5462:. pp. 127, 144. Archived from
5240:. Boston: Patrick Donahoe. p.
4518:
4257:. London: Chapman and Hall: 484–491
3766:(in German). e-artnow. p. 51.
3309:
3171:Quinion, Michael (3 January 2004).
3155:A Handy Book of Curious Information
2951:Prim, John G.A. (11 January 1868).
2615:. Dublin: R. Gibson: 416. July 1807
2437:(2017). Gillyboeuf, Thierry (ed.).
1572:From Edward Quinn, Barrettsgrange,
1015:describes how twelve unfed captive
1001:
502:
411:had a story of a similar battle in
13:
7761:"Feline stamps are the cat's meow"
7502:Mighty Mouse and the Kilkenny Cats
6668:; Russell, Thomas Herbert (1911).
6546:. New York: Macmillan. p. 682
5969:Baldwin, William (30 July 2010) .
5276:. London: Leo Cooper. p. 79.
5155:The New International Encyclopedia
4903:
4837:Tréguer, Pascal (6 January 2017).
4754:"Kilkenny power to fine victory".
4436:Handy-book of Literary Curiosities
4398:. Routledge. pp. 87–120: 98.
3805:. 9 (214). London: J. Onwhyn: 4.
2414:
2219:Monagle, James (30 October 2009).
1772:"The Kilkenny Cats" are a pair of
1687:'s 1824 poem "The Cat-Fight" is a
1385:(Prim, Juverna and J. P. Curran);
1098:The New International Encyclopedia
964:
758:that the privilege of the writ of
694:Conversely, the fable serves as a
446:
381:faction fight between the cats of
186:When I was last at Kilkenny, said
14:
8045:
7939:
7759:Hogan, Senan (7 September 2007).
7452:Ware, Gary Kevin (26 June 2008).
7245:
6622:: 878–884: 881–883. November 1867
6489:
5838:. 15 (11). Dublin: 215–250: 224.
5651:Flight to Africa: And Other Poems
5618:Gilbert, Sir John Thomas (1865).
5526:(2096): 888–889. 28 December 1867
5056:. Dublin: Hodges, Smith. p.
4106:(31). Bristol: Jordans: 699–700.
3261:. Dublin: Duffy. pp. 100–104
3048:. Vol. 13. pp. 332–340.
2443:(in French). Le Passeur. fn.113.
2158:This may refer to an incident on
1662:, and arranged for six voices by
1623:And they scratched, and they bit;
1597:
362:The battle of the cats of Ireland
235:Responding to the 1816 critique,
7910:
7880:
7853:
7809:
7740:
7731:
7612:
7576:
7540:
7531:
7493:
7468:
7426:
7400:
7373:
7353:Scott, Laurence infield (1880).
7346:
7292:
7276:. In Downey, John Florin (ed.).
7265:
7239:
7212:
7189:
7177:. Project Gutenberg. p. 128
7158:
7108:
7078:Graves, Samantha (August 2015).
7067:
7014:
6985:
6918:. New York: Century. p. 226
6817:
6785:. Borrowdale Press. p. 56.
6641:Corbin, John (4 February 1899).
6634:
6594:
6509:
6483:
6456:
6421:
6394:
6379:
6312:
6282:
6254:
6239:(311). London: 2. 4 January 1823
6201:
6176:
6151:
6135:. New York: Macmillan. pp.
6117:
6083:
6043:
6014:
6000:Dictionary of Phrase & Fable
5987:
5857:A Dictionary of Celtic Mythology
5842:
5823:
5770:Russell, Thomas O'Neill (1900).
5639:
5611:
5593:
5578:
5563:
5551:. Project Gutenberg. p. 325
5538:
5482:
5478:(14). New York Legislature: 162.
5353:
5265:
5227:
5201:
4870:Prim, John G.A. (29 June 1850).
4430:Walsh, William Shepard (1909) .
4169:Spielmann, Marion Harry (1895).
3467:. In Partington, Wilfred (ed.).
3157:. J. B. Lippincott. p. 585.
3119:Redmond, S. (13 February 1864).
3100:. London: John Mason. p. 79
3045:Dictionary of National Biography
2482:. C. Spilsbury. Preface and p.55
2347:Pierini, Patrizia (April 2008).
2196:
2179:
2170:
2152:
2132:
2120:
2107:
2070:, in relation to the battles of
1765:is a burlesque premiered at the
1646:and performed on her 2004 album
1463:the strife for the body of Moses
1414:
1401:(Curran). Cashman and Gaffney's
1310:A Dictionary of Celtic Mythology
1188:claims the soldiers were in the
824:The French Revolution: A History
700:united we stand, divided we fall
658:of fomenting antagonism between
626:Germany invaded the Soviet Union
455:'The Kilkenny Cats; or, Old and
401:, to which Kilkenny antiquarian
286:An 1817 memoir of the Irish wit
276:
163:, and in the 1813 supplement to
7923:. The Savoy, London: T. Newcomb
7816:Keane, Sean (11 October 2018).
7704:Jipson, Arthur (24 July 2008).
7591:. 33 1/3. Bloomsbury Academic.
7479:. KP Books. pp. 290, 294.
7380:Doyle, Charles Anthony (1911).
7272:Fuller, Harvey Austin (1999) .
7049:"The Kilkenny Cats –– Expanded"
6877:. New York: A. Stokes. p.
6403:"The Story of the Confederates"
6090:Dolan, Terence Patrick (2006).
5272:Esson, Denis Main Ross (1971).
5213:History of the Irish Parliament
5143:
5105:
5078:Ward, C.A. (14 February 1891).
5071:
5043:
5008:
4997:
4969:
4927:
4897:
4830:
4813:
4758:. 10 February 1986. p. 18.
4729:
4659:
4621:
4593:
4578:
4548:
4512:
4481:
4457:Bleecker, Anthony (July 1825).
4450:
4383:
4304:Lettres à M. Panizzi, 1850-1870
4291:
4285:Lettres à M. Panizzi, 1850-1870
4269:
4238:
4213:
4183:
4143:
4118:
4054:
4024:
3996:
3981:
3948:
3917:
3883:
3817:
3787:
3753:
3726:
3703:
3671:
3627:
3585:
3559:
3528:
3516:. R. Jennings. 1816. p. 23
3504:
3451:
3432:. 10 December 1814. p. 216
3418:
3384:
3357:
3273:
3246:
3215:
3146:
3112:
3085:
3052:
3026:
2971:
2910:
2758:
2734:
2716:The Satirist: Or Monthly Meteor
2683:
2660:Daniel, William Barker (1813).
2653:
2627:
2601:
2575:
2541:
2523:
2506:Connor, Steven (7 April 2017).
2094:
2081:
2060:
2046:
2037:
2028:
2015:
1848:, a 1987 documentary about the
1804:and held 1964–1974, included a
1753:(Charles Anthony Doyle, 1911).
1627:And some scraps of their nails,
1533:'s carving associated with the
800:Central Bureau of Investigation
54:are a fabled pair of cats from
7651:"'Athens, Ga.,' on Rock Bands"
6871:Betts, Ethel Franklin (1909).
6827:; Baring-Gould, Cecil (1962).
6566:. Simon and Schuster. p.
6492:"Hurling and Football Matches"
5802:Joyce, Patrick Weston (1903).
5472:New York Legislative Documents
5296:"Kilkenny (Kilkenny, Ireland)"
5215:. Ulster Historical Foundation
5185:. London: Macmillan. pp.
5116:. 27 November 1943. p. 5.
4805:"Late Kilkenny effort tells".
3832:(569). London: H. Colburn: 812
3479:– via Internet Archive.
3255:"XXVI: The Battle of the Cats"
2917:Hook, Theodore Edward (1837).
2408:
2379:
2323:
2289:
2263:
1998:
1985:
1592:
1555:collected two origin stories:
1430:In a German belief noticed by
835:politics, such as between the
702:". It was invoked in 1827, in
616:as Kilkenny cats fighting the
111:characterises the story as an
1:
6856:. New York: H. Holt. p.
6846:– via Internet Archive.
6707:– via Internet Archive.
6696:. New York: Crowell. p.
6558:Wren, Christopher S. (2001).
6524:. Small, Maynard. p. 145
6463:Mrs Maher (11 January 1939).
6357:Paton, William Roger (1918).
6147:– via Internet Archive.
6079:– via Internet Archive.
6050:Funk, Charles Earle (1985) .
5877:– via Oxford Reference.
5859:(2nd ed.). p. 305.
5668:. Gallery Books. p. 30.
5435:Slope, Simon (3 April 1879).
5360:Rogers, Katharine M. (2001).
5234:McGee, Thomas D'Arcy (1853).
4826:. Vancouver, WA. p. A12.
4220:Baden-Powell, George (1898).
4084:"The Hatters of High Holborn"
3927:(1909). Roberts, B.H. (ed.).
3811:10.1016/S0140-6736(02)96957-6
3687:Darwin Correspondence Project
3573:. 13 (1): 12. 30 August 1817
2891:. London: Whittaker. p.
2563:. J. Fielding: 461. June 1807
2202:The other stamps depicted a "
1974:
940:Irish counties have nicknames
752:an 1843 attempt to arrest him
7583:Roesgen, Jeffrey T. (2008).
7537:Monagle 2010, pp.93, 94, 105
7123:. New York. pp. 13–142
6825:Baring-Gould, William Stuart
6160:Irish Proverbs & Sayings
4906:"The Cautious Man; A sketch"
4666:Redmond, S. (October 1853).
3635:"John Bull and the Dutchman"
3069:. London: Methuen. pp.
3039:"Curran, John Philpot"
2355:(36): sec 4.6, table 23(d).
2256:
2185:Nye's character is based on
1979:
1713:. The poem also appeared on
1563:, County Kilkenny, aged 87:
1403:Irish Proverbs & Sayings
934:
809:in divided legislatures: by
568:and his priests". Similarly
302:Passing his first summer at
7:
7862:"Lope de Vega's Gatomachia"
7585:"The Wild Cats of Kilkenny"
7136:"The Review: The Cat-Fight"
7047:Walker, James Barr (1871).
6936:The Boyd Smith Mother Goose
6536:Woods, Ralph Louis (1942).
5653:. Dolmen Press. p. 70.
5585:Harris, Richard W. (1939).
4801:. 22 June 1987. p. 10.
4175:. London: Cassell. p.
3856:Maxwell, John Gary (2016).
3364:Craigie, W.A., ed. (1933).
2852:Jahrbuch für Amerikastudien
2421:Online Etymology Dictionary
2298:"Watty Flaherty; Chapter I"
1893:
1634:This is often reduced to a
1625:Till, excepting their tails
1621:So they quarrelled and fit;
805:It was invoked in 1837 for
710:Royal College of Physicians
708:during disputes around the
624:. Similarly in 1941, after
592:Revolution of the Restorers
459:"coming to the scratch."' (
294:rather than Kilkenny, as a
152:Walker's Hibernian Magazine
10:
8050:
7887:Hehir, Brendan O. (1968).
7675:Music USA: The Rough Guide
7634:(3). SPIN Media LLC: 21–23
7325:. JHU Press. p. 217.
6544:A treasury of the familiar
6208:Colston, Marianne (1822).
5994:Brewer, E. Cobham (1898).
5849:MacKillop, James (2016) .
5746:10.1515/zcph.1954.24.1.139
5496:. 27 March 1861. p. 4
5447:(1583). New York City: 28.
5417:The Sabbath School Visiter
5004:Rot. Claus. 51 Ed. III. 78
4632:. P. M. Egan. p. 392.
4585:Ward, Leo Richard (1939).
3173:"Fight like Kilkenny cats"
3153:Walsh, William S. (1912).
2792:Lascelles, Rowley (1817).
2770:. Dublin. 1816. p. 54
2746:. Boston. 1811. p. 58
2212:
1918:Mutual assured destruction
1529:The cat with two tails, a
1329:suggested that a heading "
1236:case in Kilkenny saw Dame
1207:Cromwell's occupying force
1201:times (1558–1603); or the
768:First Minister of Scotland
274:
7725:10.1080/03007769408591561
7713:Popular Music and Society
7500:Terrytoons (April 1945).
6892:Johnson, Clifton (1911).
6874:The complete Mother Goose
6781:Harrowven, Jean (2004) .
6267:Demonology and Devil-lore
6010:– via Bartleby.com.
5903:(2): 310–312: 311, fn.1.
5600:O'Connor, Joseph (1951).
5399:(47). J. Sibbald: 352–353
5387:Humanus (November 1788).
5294:Kloak, Andrew M. (2013).
5092:10.1093/nq/s7-XI.268.129d
4809:. 2 May 1988. p. 10.
4672:Duffy's Fireside Magazine
4606:The Sydney Morning Herald
4519:Poe, Edgar Allan (2000).
4463:Dumfries Monthly Magazine
4302:. In Fagan, Louis (ed.).
4298:Mérimée, Prosper (1881).
4283:. In Fagan, Louis (ed.).
3310:Poe, Edgar Allan (2015).
2978:O'Regan, William (1817).
2858:: 204–319: 210–219: 213.
2535:Webster's 1913 Dictionary
1878:and wearing the Kilkenny
1828:Rum Sodomy & the Lash
1742:Charles Villiers Stanford
1553:Irish Folklore Commission
1408:Oxford English Dictionary
1133:Confederation of Kilkenny
1000:Rowley Lascelles claimed
429:Irish Folklore Commission
250:s", the first edition of
174:The following appears in
7746:Monagle 2010, pp.17, 196
7679:. Rough Guides. p.
6912:Rackham, Arthur (1913).
6799:Saltman, Judith (1985).
6516:Brown, Marshall (1918).
6319:R.C. (17 January 1874).
5830:O'Looney, Brian (1879).
5589:. John Lane. p. 81.
5572:Chambers's Encyclopaedia
5460:A Girl of the Limberlost
5347:10.1093/nq/s3-V.126.433a
5129:Calendar of Ormond Deeds
4129:. Penguin. p. 186.
3224:"The Battle of the Cats"
3133:10.1093/nq/s3-V.111.133d
3127:. s3 v5 (111): 133–134.
2905:Joe Miller kilkenny cat.
2831:The New-England Magazine
2006:pronunciation respelling
1756:
1678:David Claypoole Johnston
1351:about "Patrik Agore", a
959:Clark County, Washington
673:"About the Size of it" (
465:, 1846) — caricature of
443:on New Year's Day 1855.
7969:Cats in popular culture
7555:. Allison & Busby.
7475:O'Brien, Karen (2005).
7299:Huber, Anne L. (1873).
7225:Irish Songs and Ballads
7115:Mack, Ebenezer (1824).
6630:– via HathiTrust.
6496:The Schools’ Collection
6469:The Schools’ Collection
6407:Icelandic Saga Database
6386:Taylor, Archer (1931).
6033:Encyclopædia Britannica
6027:"Kilkenny (city)"
5666:Journey through Ireland
5333:Juverna (28 May 1864).
4884:10.1093/nq/s1-II.35.71a
4736:Share, Bernard (2001).
4690:Moylan, Séamas (1996).
4587:God in an Irish kitchen
4357:"Les chats de Kilkenny"
4322:"Les chats de Kilkenny"
4245:Jacox, Francis (1865).
3977:. New Delhi. p. 1.
3542:Open Source Shakespeare
3282:"Rossinver NS material"
3253:O'Hanlon, John (1896).
3092:Stanley, Jacob (1830).
2662:"Hare and Hare-hunting"
2571:– via HathiTrust.
1862:In 2007, a set of four
1734:Irish Songs and Ballads
1559:From Mrs Maher, Tulla,
1488:in 1922 was sceptical:
1456:built on this in 1879:
1381:Encyclopædia Britannica
1359:, who sets out to kill
1355:of John Butler, son of
1325:In 1857, the editor of
1276:, a beast mentioned in
718:of the rivalry between
282:Elsewhere than Kilkenny
161:The Spirit of Irish Wit
7866:The Westminster Review
7860:Άναγκη (August 1843).
7477:Toys & Prices 2006
7448:– via ChessBase.
7414:. Adam Matthew Digital
7382:"The Cats av Kilkenny"
6676:. Akron, OH: Saalfield
6342:Epigrammatum Graecorum
6339:Brodeau, Jean (1600).
6298:The Tiger in the House
6262:Conway, Moncure Daniel
6229:"Review of new books:
5411:Humanity (June 1834).
4390:Geiger, Till (2017) .
4172:The history of "Punch"
3535:Shakespeare, William.
3430:Niles' Weekly Register
3391:Murray, James (1888).
3234:(219). London: 302–308
3121:"Great Battle of Cats"
2695:. London: T. Goddard.
2517:University of Helsinki
2391:Ireland's Ancient East
2117:in an 1861 newspaper.
2054:
1949:The Great Cat Massacre
1845:Athens, GA: Inside/Out
1738:Alfred Perceval Graves
1681:
1632:
1361:Cahir mac Art Kavanagh
1318:
1306:Thomas O'Neill Russell
1270:
1205:army of the 1640s; or
1153:
1149:First stage of cruelty
1028:municipal corporations
871:
780:Supreme Court of India
691:
686:"Well, and what if it
474:
366:S. Redmond in 1864 in
290:situates the story in
149:, also in London, and
47:
7274:"The Kilkenny Legend"
6957:The Real Mother Goose
6932:"There Were Two Cats"
6745:Lancelyn Green, Roger
6711:Butler, Tony (1970).
6653:(2198). New York: 115
6333:10.1093/nq/s5-I.3.46d
6264:(6 September 2012) .
5452:Stratton-Porter, Gene
5179:Craik, Henry (1894).
4912:. s.2 XXVII (170): 22
4404:10.4324/9781315261348
4125:Foster, R.F. (1995).
4082:Grant, James (1843).
4067:The bench and the bar
4040:The French Revolution
3992:. London. p. 24.
3959:. Glasgow. p. 6.
3891:Meade, George Gordon
3714:. Library of Congress
3598:Vol. I. London:
3571:Niles' Weekly Reister
2276:victorianresearch.org
2228:(PhD). NUI Maynooth.
1993:Philip Meadows Taylor
1808:as one of the events.
1676:
1654:. It was also set by
1614:
1454:Moncure Daniel Conway
1420:Comparative mythology
1258:
1240:flee and her servant
1178:of 1803. A review in
1145:
950:, which has won more
872:les chats de Kilkenny
851:in the 1870s, or the
672:
507:4th Duke of Buccleuch
467:William Smith O'Brien
454:
354:An 1830 "dialogue on
165:William Barker Daniel
146:The Sporting Magazine
135:The European Magazine
95:Versions of the story
85:Kilkenny hurling team
39:will debilitate both
24:
8019:Anti-Irish sentiment
7547:Nye, Robert (2012).
6715:Best Irish limericks
6670:"Familiar Allusions"
6401:Coles, John (1882).
6186:Zoological Mythology
5694:The Irish Naturalist
5624:. J. Duffy. p.
5466:on 15 February 2011.
5086:. s7 v9 (268): 129.
4795:"Cats are purring".
4628:Hogan, John (1884).
4251:Bentley's Miscellany
4034:(2 November 2019) .
3830:The Literary Gazette
3683:"To Caroline Darwin"
3094:"Transubstantiation"
2885:Miller, Joe (1836).
2509:Ludicrous Inbodiment
2440:Histoire de moi-même
2435:Thoreau, Henry David
2367:on 13 September 2019
2302:Bentley's Miscellany
1885:A short film titled
1864:Irish postage stamps
1732:The 1893 collection
1652:H. Johannes Wallmann
1650:by Keith Borden and
1432:Professor Rochholtz
1424:Angelo de Gubernatis
1341:The King of the Cats
1211:John Baptist Crozier
1203:Catholic Confederate
1176:Emmet's Insurrection
1044:Alexander de Balscot
948:Kilkenny county team
891:UK Foreign Secretary
862:Bentley's Miscellany
715:The Literary Gazette
545:policy. A report in
505:; a letter from the
326:Real life in Ireland
7868:. J.M. Mason: 40–53
7737:Monagle 2010, p.185
7355:"The Kilkenny Cats"
7301:"The Kilkenny Cats"
7221:"The Kilkenny Cats"
6952:"The Kilkenny Cats"
6898:Mother Goose rhymes
6894:"The Kilkenny Cats"
6783:The limerick makers
6692:Laughable limericks
6589:a familiar limerick
6539:"The Kilkenny Cats"
6465:"The Kilkenny Cats"
6355:; translation from
6327:. s.5 v.1 (3): 46.
6321:"The Kilkenny cats"
5084:Notes & Queries
4904:R. (January 1823).
4872:"The Kilkenny Cats"
4678:(36). J. Duffy: 379
4564:The Citizen Soldier
4042:. Project Gutenberg
4009:Debates in Congress
4006:(12 January 1837).
3739:The German Ideology
3681:(23 October 1833).
3464:"Decr. 16th, 1816."
3259:Irish local legends
3098:Dialogues on Popery
2953:"The Kilkenny Cats"
2635:"The Kilkenny Cats"
2243:on 13 November 2019
1723:poetry for children
1715:Islands Of The Moon
1322:"female champion".
1250:John Thomas Gilbert
1242:Petronilla de Meath
1129:Thomas D'Arcy McGee
1109:from 1673 to 1681.
740:George Gordon Meade
643:The German Ideology
288:John Philpot Curran
200:tips of their tails
194:" says I, "my dear
8014:Animal cannibalism
7917:Sir J. D. (1668).
7797:on 4 February 2019
7656:The New York Times
7171:Cruikshank, George
6761:Everyman's Library
6364:Greek Anthology IV
6300:. Bartleby. note 4
6210:"III; Mount-Cenis"
5917:25502563?seq=2
5700:(10/11): 148–158.
5602:Hostage to fortune
5516:"[Review]
4566:. Philadelphia, PA
4367:(1054). Paris: 525
4332:(1052). Paris: 385
3975:The Times of India
3797:(6 October 1827).
3567:"Foreign articles"
3288:. pp. 275–282
2800:. pp. 289–290
2666:Supplement to the
2549:"[Review]
2189:and Shakespeare's
1850:Athens music scene
1838:The Kilkenny Cats
1793:saves the mice of
1682:
1391:Charles Earle Funk
1154:
1125:bishop of Ossory.
1008:Histoire Naturelle
988:La Belle Assemblée
837:Repeal Association
807:political gridlock
782:in December 2018,
776:Scottish Secretary
728:American Civil War
692:
618:Russo-Japanese War
580:Ten Days' Campaign
543:divide-and-conquer
475:
395:Charles Henry Ross
277:§ Derivatives
270:History of Ireland
253:Joe Miller's Jests
48:
33:Russo-Japanese War
8004:English etymology
7964:Mythological cats
7931:– via EEBO.
7690:978-1-85828-421-7
7598:978-1-4411-0570-7
7074:Walker 1871 p.121
6810:978-0-395-35773-6
6792:978-0-9540349-3-1
6577:978-0-7432-2276-1
6325:Notes and Queries
6290:Van Vechten, Carl
6103:978-0-7171-4039-8
5339:Notes and Queries
5251:978-0-665-48633-3
4951:"The Field-Mouse"
4876:Notes and Queries
4807:Irish Independent
4798:Irish Independent
4136:978-0-14-017170-9
3125:Notes and Queries
3012:978-1-84731-090-3
2587:Sporting Magazine
2450:978-2-36890-553-1
2415:Harper, Douglas.
2353:Linguistik Online
2340:978-962-359-985-6
2008:of "by Jesus" in
1842:group feature in
1719:spoken word album
1668:James Barr Walker
1551:In the 1930s the
1300:in regarding the
1278:Broccán Craibdech
1172:Wexford Rebellion
1158:Notes and Queries
1123:Church of Ireland
983:Notes and Queries
957:In 1998 a man in
833:Irish nationalist
750:, who said after
630:Clifford Berryman
600:political cartoon
503:mentioned earlier
421:Irishtown, Dublin
369:Notes and Queries
242:Although in 1835
31:(1904) hopes the
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5889:Hore, Herbert F.
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5548:One Irish Summer
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5518:The Book of Cats
5512:
5506:
5505:
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5501:
5490:"On the Decline"
5486:
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5437:"Articles: Cats"
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4558:(26 July 1843).
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4277:Mérimée, Prosper
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3200:The Book of Cats
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3177:World Wide Words
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1900:Self-cannibalism
1870:from cartoonist
1840:alternative rock
1831:, in which "two
1736:, with words by
1658:for gradeschool
1656:W. Otto Miessner
1574:County Tipperary
1486:Carl Van Vechten
1440:
1387:World Wide Words
1383:Eleventh Edition
1321:
1319:ban-gaisgidheach
1282:Book of Leinster
1280:'s poem in the "
1107:Kilkenny College
1048:bishop of Ossory
1002:the 1816 version
922:Children's Court
902:Anthony Bleecker
893:, described the
874:
788:Attorney General
736:Ulysses S. Grant
732:war of attrition
685:
664:Ludwig Feuerbach
652:Friedrich Engels
575:Figaro in London
563:
471:Daniel O'Connell
298:told by Curran:
237:Rowley Lascelles
224:Kilkenny College
176:Thomas Gilliland
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7838:Two Cats (2018)
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7824:Kilkenny People
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7788:Collectors News
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7649:(29 May 1987).
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7198:"Kilkenny Cats"
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7117:"The Cat-Fight"
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7025:. Broude Bros.
7023:Airs and Rounds
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6647:Harper's Weekly
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867:Prosper Mérimée
784:K. K. Venugopal
698:for the moral "
696:cautionary tale
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