School: Oileán Mhuire (Lady's Island)
- Location:
- Lady's Island, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: G. Ó Murthuile
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0878, Page 120
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- "The Blot and the Comma"
About forty years ago, there lived in the Lane of Stones a boy named Dick Parle. Every day, wet or fine, he went to school. Whenever he wrote with a pen and ink he put a blot on his paper. He never knew where to put a comma. He called the blot a pig and the comma a tail.
One day he was absent from school and next day when he came, the master asked him why he stayed at home. He just answered, "My father killed a blot and I had to hold it by the comma."
- Collector
- Mary Redmond
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Buncarrick, Co. Wexford
- Informant
- Mrs Redmond
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 52
- Address
- Buncarrick, Co. Wexford
