School: Clochar Nuala, Dún na nGall (roll number 9389)
- Location:
- Donegal, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: An tSr. Eanda le Muire
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- After the 1916 Rebellion the Irish prisoners on being taken to internment camps in England refused to converse in any other language but their native tongue. Any questions asked by the English soldiers guarding them were answered by the Irish soldiers in Gaedhilg.
One night, a few hours after the prisoners bedtime, an English soldier entered the camp and finding one of the beds empty asked the question "Who owns this bed". An Irish prisoner standing at the entrance to the camp replied "is liomsa". Indignant at this impertinence (as he thought), the English soldier went up to the prisoner in a rage and said Lumps o'ay (Lumps of hay) indeed. Even if it is lumps o'ay you had better come up here and get into it jolly quick.(continues on next page)- Collector
- Teresa Cassidy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Drumbar, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Hugh Cassidy
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Drumbar, Co. Donegal