Orangemen

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3 January 1939

P.S. Duffy

(no title)

“One morning a man saw, instead of his wife, an old hag in bed beside him.”

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3 January 1939

P.S. Duffy

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“Duffy never saw a coffin buried for sometime being taken up on the occasion of a second burial.”

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3 January 1939

P.S. Duffy

(no title)

“A bad sign is the coffin to be heavy.”

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3 January 1939

P.S. Duffy

(no title)

“On top of a hill near where Patrick Duffy lived is a grave six feet long.”

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3 January 1939

P.S. Duffy

(no title)

“When questioned about where suicides were buried, Duffy told a story about a Jew named Levy...”

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3 January 1939

P.S. Duffy

(no title)

“There is a Castle in Rossduff in the Co. Longford.”

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3 January 1939

P.S. Duffy

Rosduff, Co. Longford

(no title)

“Patrick Duffy said that the fiddlers, mentioned already, were very badly off during the Famine Times...”

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3 January 1939

P.S. Duffy

(no title)

“When the coffin is taken out it is placed on chairs outside the door...”

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3 January 1939

P.S. Duffy

(no title)

“Duffy mentioned a man who, when dying, asked his relatives to bring a bottle of whiskey to the grave-yard...”

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3 January 1939

P.S. Duffy

(no title)

“It was always the nearest friends or releatives who carried the corpse out of the house.”

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3 January 1939

P.S. Duffy

(no title)

“Relatives or friends of the dead person usually dig the grave.”

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3 January 1939

P.S. Duffy

(no title)

“Duffy told of a fool who at a burial threw the first shovelfull of clay into the grave.”

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3 January 1939

P.S. Duffy

(no title)

“Duffy never heard of a superstition about digging a grave on a Monday.”

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3 January 1939

P.S. Duffy

(no title)

“The corpse was usually washed and "left over board" by some old woman, the local midwife.”

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3 January 1939

P.S. Duffy

(no title)

“The dead man's razor was used for shaving the corpse.”

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3 January 1939

P.S. Duffy

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“Patrick Duffy, when questioned, said that he saw the water with which the corpse had been washed being thrown...”

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3 January 1939

P.S. Duffy

(no title)

“The habit is usually put on the dying person before death supervenes.”

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3 January 1939

P.S. Duffy

(no title)

“When Patrick Duffy's sister died, he thought it very strange that her eyes were not closed.”

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3 January 1939

P.S. Duffy

(no title)

“Many corpses are laid out on the table.”

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3 January 1939

P.S. Duffy