School: Slane (C.) (roll number 4852)
- Location:
- Slane, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Josephine Cooney
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0713, Page 341
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- (continued from previous page)Some of them were fortunate enough to have a couple of calves which they had to sell at a great loss and with the aid of a good neighbour who helped them their whole families had to go to America.
All this trouble has ended as the people got an opportunity of purchasing their homesteads.
The world was ringing with the news of the wonderful Land Bill and what it was to do for the Irish peasants but still poor old Michael O Rooney of Slane smiled not as he surveyed his almost hopelessly waterlogged fields for which recent heavy rains had done their worst. Presently his land lord came riding past. "Well Mike" said he "you will soon be rid of me altogether now that you are to have the Land Bill. I suppose you are delighted." But Michael said never a word. "Why don't you approve of the idea" continued the landowner. "Surely you don't see anything wrong with it." "Nothing much sir" the man(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Alice Coyle
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Hill of Slane, Co. Meath
