School: Caisleán na hÉille (The Neale)
- Location:
- Neale, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Mhic Domhnaill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0103, Page 255
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- (continued from previous page)against one another on the street, and Donnelly struck a fist upon him, but he did not strike the second fist upon him, for the man would not stand for him for the second fist.
"Is that the best man in Dublin?" said Donnelly.
"It's made out that he is," said the other people.
"Well, I'd beat one and twenty of his sort, after other, only they to come before me."
"Give up that belt," says O'Kelly to the bully.
"No, but wear it yourself,(bully). I have no respect for it when it was not on a better man than you!"
That now is the first feat of valour that Donnelly performed, and he began, from that out, giving challenges to the fighters of the country, until he had every one defeated, and it was(continues on next page)
- Collector
- May Conroy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Castletown, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Martin Duffy
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 56
- Address
- Carn, Co. Mayo
