Volume: CBÉ 0460 (Part 2)

Date
1938
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The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0460, Page 0258

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The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0460, Page 0258

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  1. (no title) (continued)

    This Matty Bandeville, Matty the Doctor as he was called, he had two nieces...

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    what a nice place it was, or what nice people were in it - something like that. Ould Matty jumped up (and the two girls were in the kitchen and they threatning me to shut up). He jumped out in the middle of the floor. "Bannon" says he, "Bannon!" "When Strongbow landed in Bannon he wrote back to England to have 'em send on 'Hose and Brogues'; and they didnt know what he meant by Hose and brogues and they sent over a whole shipload of Whores and Rogues - and there in Bannon still"
    "Oh begab he was ripping. He couldnt bear to hear any wan mention Bannon at all.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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    There's a woman down here the road and she's an awful blueshirt.

    There's a woman down here the road and she's an awful blueshirt. We were talking the other day about the new constitution. "Did you see the new stamps" says I to her.
    "What new stamps?" says she.
    "Oh says I there's a new constitution in
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Date
    January 1938
    Item type
    Lore
    Language
    English
    Writing mode
    Handwritten
    Writing script
    Gaelic script
    Informant