In this lesson, students build on the understandings developed in Lessons 1 and 2 and draw conclusions based on literary elements. Students will: 1  draw conclusions based on information within a text, including determining the theme of a text. 2  identify textual evidence to support conclusions.
Seamus /sea-mus/ [2 sylls.] as a boys' name is pronounced SHAY-mus. It is of Irish and Hebrew origin, and the meaning of Seamus is he who supplants. Variant of James.  Shamus  is sometimes used as an American slang for a private detective. Poet Seamus Heaney.
The importing of many a mallacht (the Irish word for a curse) from Gaelic to English has added colour, even when more sinister than funny. I have put together a list of traditional and funny Irish curses below. smile when Americans refer to the use of 'f@*k' as the F-bomb because of its effect in polite circles. Though not by origin a Gaelic word, in Irish circles the use of the word is commonplace and casual, to the point of rendering it meaningless at times.