“So she is understandably dismissive of the dismal gorse and whin on view outside the living room window of her Council house.”

“Like adventurers, we followed him up and up through the bracken, heather and gorse, thrashing the undergrowth aside with sticks.”

“Later however, the men of the parish got together and cleared gorse and heather from the present festival field at Gurteen and sowed grass seed.”

“Flowers range from peonies, delphiniums, various brooms and gorses, mallows, asters and periwinkle through to buglosses, mandrake, daisies, narcissi, irises and orchids.”

“They ordered the lackeys not to unsaddle the gorses, and to hold themselves in readiness to set off again immediately.”