School: Doirín Dáimh Dheirg / Dereendafderg (roll number 13469)
- Location:
- Doire an Daimh Dheirg, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Liam Seóighe
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- (continued from previous page)time, there will be some people late for business and there be complaints. During these rush periods too I have to be careful giving change for if I am short in the evening my pay suffers.
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“Many a laugh I have too when the gentry pull up in their big cars...”
16th December 1937Many a laugh I have too when the gentry pull up in their big cars to ask me the way. "Is this the road to Castlebar my good fellow?, they say. I can direct them to any place in the county. But I laugh at them when I see their maps and worried look. And I wouldn't swop my heap of stones for the softest leather behind a driving wheel. I always get the first peep at every visitor because they go slowly. So, In the evening when I am asked who was on the car that rattled by I can(continues on next page) - Collector
- Seán Ó Luideánn
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Doire an Daimh Dheirg, Co. Mayo
