School: Tillystown, Bray (roll number 9845)
- Location:
- Shanganagh, Co. Dublin
- Teacher: Micheál Ó Heoghanáin
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- An Irishman was standing at a corner of a street. He had six pence in his pocket. Two little boys come up the street so he called them over, and he gave them three pence each. He told them the very minute that he would break the window. That where to run so he broke the window, and the two lads ran. The man of the shop came out he asked the Irishman showed him the two lads running down the street. The shopkeeper asked him to mind the shop. The Irishman went into the shop and filled up his pockets with money and watches and an alarm clock. So the Irishman went to a house and he got lodging. he took out the alarm clock and he put it on the(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Mr Jack Doyle
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 56
- Occupation
- Gardener
- Address
- Shankill, Co. Dublin
