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By hook or by crook

Posted by Parick Grace on March 22, 2001

Maybe because of our history, where Cromwell whipped out more than half the Irish population; I know the derivation as referring to the Mail boat's arrival at Waterford. I also have heard it stated 'by hook or by crook, by land or by sea'

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