Crossword-Solution: DUDHEEN 7 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

Then, in a clear mezzo-soprano voice, she sang the first verse of one of the most popular Irish ballads:-- "O Arrah, ma dheelish, the distant dudheen Lies soft in the moonlight, ma bouchal vourneen: The springing gossoons on the heather are still, And the caubeens and colleens are heard on the hills." But as the ravishing notes of her sweet voice died upon the air, her hands sank listlessly to her side.

Sucking the corpse of his deceased dudheen, he staggered through his duties with his barrowful of stones and dirt, feeling for the first time that the curse of Adam was upon him.

The favourite article is a "dudheen," a well culotté clay, used and worn till the bowl touches the nose.

Then, in a clear mezzo-soprano voice, she sang the first verse of one of the most popular Irish ballads:— “O _Arrah ma dheelish_, the distant _dudheen_ Lies soft in the moonlight, _ma bouchal vourneen_: The springing _gossoons_ on the heather are still, And the _caubeens_ and _colleens_ are heard on the hill.” But as the ravishing notes of her sweet voice died upon the air, her hands sank listlessly to her side.

Glowing coal in clay dudheen Carries me to sweet Killarney, Full of hypocritic blarney,-- Huts with babies, pigs, and hens Mixed together, bogs and fens, Shillalahs, praties, usquebaugh, Tenants defying hated law, Fair blue eyes with lashes black, Eyes black and blue from cudgel-thwack,-- So fair, so foul, is Erin green.