Volume: CBÉ 0460 (Part 2)

Date
1938
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The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0460, Page 0259

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  1. (no title) (continued)

    There's a woman down here the road and she's an awful blueshirt.

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    force and they have grand new stamps out about it, a fellow with a dagger in his hand up that way same as if he was going to stick some wan with it."
    "Oh God save us," says she "what's going to become of us at all at the end of your days?"
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
  2. (Did you ever meet the devil, Johny?)
    I did, and worked with him. Jack the devil, of Taghmon, drove Browne's Hearse for years, and his son Pat drove it after him. (Jack Furlong was his right name - but he was always called Jack the Devil)
    Jack the Devil drove Browne's hearse and Savage drove the carriage.
    The quarest names in the world were in Taghmon wan time. Thre was wan street of Sythes, Swords and Savages and another street with Codds Rodgers and Tooles. They all lived in Taghmon wan time but they are all dead & gone now.
    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