Cad deirir leis nár ghlac éad! (T.B.C., 182). "What do you say to him that didn't get jealous!" i.e., you never would have thought he would get jealous, but he did. Cad deirir leis nár dhiúltuigh! "What do you say to him that didn't refuse!" This nár is peculiar. It is negative, while the sense it expresses is strongly positive. The construction emphasizes the unexpectedness of the event. It is constantly in the mouths of speakers and is well under- stood both in the Irish and the English forms. In English it is sometimes shortened to — "and didn't he refuse!" contrary to all expectations, he refused.

Is fada Éireann do sheasaimh roinnt ag teacht aisti dhi.
For a very long time some of it continued to come from it to her?

Cad deire liom ná gur chaith amach an baighte means "and didn't I throw out the bait!" "You bet I threw the bait out".

Why is it deire here and not deirir, as Peadar Ó Laoghaire had? Is it just a typo? And why ná gur instead of nár, is this just an alternative form in the construction, which would mean that one could also say cad deirir leis ná gur ghlac éad?

nach, conj., (eclipses in modern Irish), that not; ó nach (colloq. uair nach), since not; go nach (go dtí nach), until not; assertive verb is omitted after nach (which does not then eclipse); is fíor nach díon dóibh crainn, it is true that trees afford them no shelter; before pf. tense it combines with ro becoming nachar, which see; after negatives, expressed or implied, ná go is used in M. for nach; the eclipsis caused by nach is quite modern; beag nach, beagnach, little but, almost, nearly.