Crossword clues for macushla
Wiktionary
n. (''Anglo-Irish'') My darling, my dear.
WordNet
n. (an Irish term of address expressing affection) darling
Wikipedia
"Macushla" is an Irish song that was copyrighted in 1910, with music by Dermot MacMurrough and lyrics by Josephine V. Rowe.
The title is a transliteration of the Irish mo chuisle meaning "my pulse" as used in the phrase a chuisle mo chroí which means "pulse of my heart", and thus mo chuisle has come to mean "darling" or "sweetheart".
The phrase in its native form was used in the end credits of the 1996 film Michael Collins.
In the 2004 film Million Dollar Baby trainer Frankie has "Mo Chuisle" embroidered on the silks of boxer Maggie Fitzgerald ( Hilary Swank) for her first overseas fight, and it is subsequently chanted by the various crowds in the film numerous times.
In the 1945 movie, Christmas in Connecticut, starring Barbara Stanwyck, the cow was called Macushla.
Macushla (also called Unauthorised Road) is a 1940 British drama film directed by Alex Bryce and starring Liam Gaffney, Pamela Wood and Jimmy Mageean. The plot concerns a crackdown on an arms smuggling operation across the Northern Irish border.
Usage examples of "macushla".
Fair City where it rains forty days a month the winter through, followed by the white-wine clarity of Kathleen Mavourneen, Macushla, and all the other tired lads, lasses, lakes, hills, past glories, present miseries, but all somehow revived and moving about young and freshly painted in the light spring, suddenly-not-winter rain.