Gombeen

The "Gombeen" man is alike trader, publican, and money-lender, and he is the backbone of official Nationalist influence.

Against Home Rule (1912) The Case for the Union Various

English market, to secure themselves against illegitimate and fraudulent competition and to standardise the quality of their product, but even more important has been the work of the Society in releasing the farmers from the bondage of the "Gombeen" man who has for so many years been the curse of Irish agriculture.

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By lending money to the peasant proprietors at exorbitant rates, by selling inferior seeds and manures and by carrying on his transactions with the farmers chiefly in kind, the "Gombeen" man has grown fat upon the poverty and despair of the farmer.

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Then last December, the idiot that is Minister for Finance, Brian "Gombeen" Lenihan decided we need to reduce tourism, who'd want more tourists coming to Ireland and spending thousands of Euro's in our hotels, shops and pubs in the middle of a recession?

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Then last December, the idiot that is Minister for Finance, Brian "Gombeen" Lenihan decided we need to reduce tourism, who'd want more tourists coming to Ireland and spending thousands of Euro's in our hotels, shops and pubs in the middle of a recession?

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£113,000,000, as the outside figure that need be contemplated, provided we refrain from the "economic insanity" of distributing eleven million acres of permanent pasture among shopkeepers and "Gombeen" men.

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The "Gombeen Man" is fast getting possession of the little Irish owners.

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The platform had been erected on the spot where the cabin had stood which the son of the Gombeen man had overthrown so many years ago.

Donahoe's Magazine, Volume 15, No. 2, February 1886 Various

Sir Roger Palmer gave potatoes to his tenants and sold them meal at the lowest possible figure, thus saving them from having the millstone of Gombeen tied round their neck.

The Letters of "Norah" on Her Tour Through Ireland Margaret Moran Dixon McDougall 1862

There are no "Gombeen men" here, he says, and no usurious shopkeepers.

Ireland Under Coercion (2nd ed.) (2 of 2) (1888) William Henry Hurlbert 1861