School: Coill an Easbuig (Bishopswood), Dundroma
- Location:
- Bishopswood, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Mícheál Mac Cárthaigh
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- (continued from previous page)Down & most of the men left but Bourke remained. One of the insurgents named Russell of Grantstown who wore a plume in his hat was mortally wounded but buried a pike in an on-coming soldier before he expired.
Bourke had a carriage horse of Massey's & a captain of the soldiery called out: "Your horse would not stand fire".
"No! But my heart would!", retorted the dauntless veteran of many battlefields.
He was sentenced to be hanged drawn & quartered but was afterwards released on the demand of the American Government.
The widowed mother of the fallen Russell received money from America every Christmas & Easter until her death. She never knew to whom she was indebted for this benevolence.
Story taken down from Denis McCarthy (71)
Kilmore, Golden
Collector Micheál MacCárthaigh
- Collector
- Mícheál Mac Cárthaigh
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Denis Mc Carthy
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 71
- Address
- Kilmore, Co. Tipperary
