School: Cluain Tuaiscirt (roll number 1405)
- Location:
- Clontuskert, Co. Galway
- Teacher: (name not given)
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- A Glorious Day 3-6-1938The street of Glenties, and the gateways off it, and all vacant spaces by it, were crammed with people and cattle, and carts, and tents, and applestands, and the houses were thronged to the doors, and to the windows, out of which hundreds were leaning to watch the great gay, surging crowed on the street below. The moving and talking, and shouting, and crying of thousands that hid the street; filled my ears with one continuous roar, that for a while owed and daunted me, who had never before heard anything remotely approaching it.But the seething mass of people who struggled for passage wheresoever they wished to move had a fascination for me, and I was standing in wonder.
- Collector
- Máire Ní Coirceán
- Gender
- Female
