Crossword-Solution: RYANS 5 letters, 72 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

And O'Brien liked him, for they were all the same parties-- The O'Hanlons, O'Briens, O'Ryans, M'Carthies; And they all went together in hating Crohoore, For many's the bating he gave them before.

Ryan at once remarked: "Sure, 'twill be Bessy he's after," though she herself, of course, disclaimed the idea, saying: "Och musha, ma'am, not at all." The Ryans were tenants who had also been put out of Clonmena, and they occupied a cabin adjoining the Joyces', these two dwellings, backed by the slopes of the Knockawn, forming the nucleus of Lisconnel.

And before they picked themselves up, the cherry-coloured knot had met its fate in the shape of the Ryans' black and white kid.

When he came to the place Ody's aunt had told of, he found a group of young Joyces and Ryans and others gathered among the boulders and bushes in a circle of which the heap of bog-cotton formed the centre; and a glance having showed him that it included Denis and Theresa, he sat down facing them, and said to himself: "If I'd known, now, it was bog-cotton she was wantin', I could ha' been gadrin' her plinty last night after I come home.

Miself's the quare divil." Once the police and their prisoner had gone, Denis having been brought into the Ryans' house, a deep and melancholy hush settled down upon Lisconnel, as if a murky wing had flapped out its brief flare of excitement.