[Tradition], accounts handed down from generation to generation.
[Provincial], belonging to one of the five provinces of Ireland.
[Tests], trials.
[Entertaining], amusing, diverting.
[Festive], joyous, gay, with feasts.
[Sedge], a kind of coarse grass.
[Keating]: the Rev. Doctor Geoffry Keating, who wrote, in Irish, a well known History of Ireland, full of old stories: died 1644.
[Oppression], cruelty, tyranny, hardship.
[Suppress], to put down.