School: Dún Drongáin (B.) (roll number 7231)
- Location:
- Drongán, Co. Thiobraid Árann
- Teachers: Diarmuid Ó Gormáin Labhrás Ó Gormáín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0557, Page 236
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- A gentleman came into the school and was seated on one of the rostrums. I was surpised to see the Nuns usually so grave coming quickly with great smiles of welcome and shaking heads with this gentleman. He was dressed in a brown tweed pepper-and-salt suit and wore a blue tied with large dots that seemed to me like eyes. I did not see his collar as a short beard covered it. His hat - a soft tweed - lay on the desk beside him.
His hair was full and wavy, inclined to be grey (dark) - but his face was rather pale thin. I asked a child beside me in the class who he was.
She said he was Charles Kickam - a great man who was writing a book.
About midway down the school I noticed some of the bigger girls making signs with their hands + laughing. He(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Miss H. Noonan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 71
- Address
- An Cluainín, Co. Thiobraid Árann
