Volume: CBÉ 0485 (Part 1)
- Date
- 1938
- Collector
- Locations
Archival Reference
The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0485, Page 0097
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“Ara wirus thruagh, sure I was only a little shlip o' a gosoon away back in '69...”
Ara wirus thruagh, sure I was only a little shlip o' a gosoon away back in '69, when the firsht, an the lasht o' the O'Connor's elections was held. But I mind o' it is plain is if it was yeshterday. It was a member o' the O'Connor dons o' Roscommon that was lookin' for a sate as M.P. for the County Shligo, an' John Holliott from Hollybrook an' Cooper from Markree that war agin him. Both Protestants an' land owners.
Ah! them was wild times indeed, there was meetin's an rows an' rackets every day for weeks before the(continues on next page)