Volume: CBÉ 0407 (Part 1)
- Date
- 1937
- Collector
- Locations
Archival Reference
The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0407, Page 0073
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- Father James Robinson , P.P.
Our dearly beloved PP when I was a child was father Jas. Robinson, gentlest & most lovable of men, a "walking saint" in strong contrast to his cousin Father John Robinson, who was a boil of a rake (C.C. of Clonegall) Father John was always "in hot water" with a team of horses he had, mostly useless animals. As long as Father James was "boss" in Tinryland, he had no difficulty in procuring grass & fodder for his animals but when the new curate was sent to try & reduce a debt of Lyon wh. the festive P.P. & his equally plaiteauiarl[?] curate had allowed to accrue as the result of high living and entertaining and "balls," the the "tear-a-lee"started. The new curate drove the horses to the road my father let them in. He threatened to horse-whip my father. They had it hot and heavy, but finally Father John had to apologize or face his cousin, the bishop. Father Jas. always had at least 3 men to put in his "lock" of hay. The new curate reduced the meiest[?] to unity & slowed that individual, the coachman. How to drive the blade of his spade at right angles into the earth to produce max results ets.
The principal source of amusement at that time was the raffle. The people would raffle anything: a watch, a melodion, a pig, etc. At one raffle the prise was a perfectly regulated, beautifully timed clock with faultless(continues on next page)
