Volume: CBÉ 0220 (Part 1)

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1. Evictions (continued)

   

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   people on a holy Christmas morning and they just sitting doen to their breakfast after coming home from mass. 'Twas pig's head and tay they had for their breakfast which was very rare at that time even on a Christmas morning. Well the poor Christmas had to go out bag and baggage and they finishes their breakfast beside an ould lime kiln under a sgeac, and that sgeac is there to this day and it is grew into the shape of a cross, and no matter what way ant one will cut it it will grow back into the shape of a cross again. Well they finishes their little breakfast anyhow, and the women went to some kind neighbour to see would they get shelter from the cold frost and snow and there was wan fine strappin young Kelly in it and he was determined to get back to his little home again by hook or by crook, and he went to a friend of his by the name of Jackman and they made it up between 'em. The landlord put friends and near relations of his own in the house that was lately evicted and begor this made Kelly and Jackman more fierce still. This

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   History Edit

   Date

   30 June 1936

   Item type

   Lore

   Language

   English

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Roman script

   Informant

   • Bean Uí Bhuitléir