Possible Clues:

• 'Dock, perhaps, but not an important one (6)'
• Perhaps remove the end of this, but it's not important
• It's not essential so to cut the end off
• Particular soldiers
• Cut the end off, perhaps, but that doesn't matter much
• What the farmer's wife did, in particular
• An individual item or element
• Duty of Irish parliament to welcome Celts at intervals
• Small part or particular
• Small or important part