School: Kilmacrennan (roll number 8461)
- Location:
- Kilmacrenan, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Anna B. McMahon
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1081, Page 118
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- I am proud to be a pupil of this school because it was here that a great and much loved Irishman, Cardinal Logue, received his early education.
He was born in Carrigart but when still a boy came to live in Kilmacrenan with his Uncle John Durning, who was a shoemaker by trade.
As a boy Cardinal Logue would do any work about the house or in the fields but he never willingly went to school and he was a bad scholar.
One morning he was crying because he had been told to go to school and Uncle John called him into his work-shop and showed him his hands, rough and hard with sore work and stained and black with resin. He said "If I had got to school when I was a lad I might not have to work so hard today but perhaps I'm time enough yet" and so saying he jumped up, pulled off his leathern apron, put on his coat and(continues on next page)
