Volume: CBÉ 0221

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1. The Redmond Eviction (continued)

   

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   again and I'll finish him and then you can bring me back and you can shoot me or hang me or strangle or do whatever you like with me, and when you have finally killed me you can take out my heart and roast it or boil it and then you can eat it and you'll be eating the heart of an Irishman".
   The kiln where the Redmonds slept on Christmas eve is there still and there is a secae growing over it and it is very strange about it. This secae grew firstly in the shape of a man looking down in the kiln with a gun in his hand, just the same as the night when Maddock was looking down at the Redmonds. This secae was cut sometime after this and it grew into the shape of a house over the Redmonds. Then it was cut again and it grew in the shape

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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