The earliest Latin culture of Ireland was heavily indebted to that of Britain […]

We've not heard a dicky-bird about anything relating to his birthday.

to relativize indirect objects

Shirley Keeldar ( she had no Christian name but Shirley; her parents, who had wished to have a son, finding that, after eight years of marriage, Providence had granted them only a daughter, bestowed on her the same masculine family cognomen they would have bestowed on a boy, if with a boy they had been blessed) - - -