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1. The Redmond Eviction (continued)

   

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   that kiln that this poor family had their Christmas breakfast. But what was worse than this the landlord himself was up on top of the kiln looking down at them and a gun in his his hand and he making fun of them. So you may be sure it wasn't a very pleasant breakfast for the poor Redmonds. Redmond himself was furious and he told his wife that that he would do for the Maddock before night. The wife told him not to do anything that he would be sorry for. He said that he certainly wouldn't, that he couldn't do anything half bad enough on the Maddocks. He went off and he borrowed a gun from a neighbour and came back and hid it. When it was dinner time and the wife made the dinner and they had it again in the lime

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   History Edit

   Date

   16 July 1936

   Item type

   Lore

   Language

   English

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Roman script

   Informant

   • Seán Dillon