School: Ballyhack Convent
- Location:
- Baile Hac, Co. Loch Garman
- Teacher: An tSr Treasa
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0874, Page 156
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- (continued from previous page)Budds, the Conns and a host of others that made up the orange faction in Passage in 1798 could come back to-day to the flesh and have a look in at Passage, they would find their descendants married to kind genial Catholic wives who are bringing up Catholic sons and daughters, whose hearts are as true to Ireland as any of those who followed in the foot-steps of Lord Edward, Wolf-Tone or Robert Emmet.There are many influences that have contributed to these happy results; the first and principal one of these was the melting sweetness of the blue-eyed Mary's or the Catholic maidens of Passage. Those rough orange sailors that saw the world and how it moved in many lands and they saw no women so pure or so virtuous(continues on next page)
