School: Ballyheaffy (B.), Baile Dubh (roll number 10387)
- Location:
- Ballyeafy, Co. Waterford
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Néill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0634, Page 151
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- (continued from previous page)no harm
The door for to approach
When I reached there, the head was there
Like a wolf or a kangaroo.
He thought to disperse the crowd
But it was more than he could do.He turned over to myself
And told me to be off out of that
Says I "I do not see the reason
I should leave the spot".He beckoned to a policeman
Who was standing by
And hauled me off to the barracks
Where discontented there I lay.
Until four soldiers were shoved in
Which gave my heart great ease.We laughed, we smoked, we talked, we walked
Until the evening late
When I was shoved into a cell
With a little brown bread to eat.And now by my hard labour
I mean to be let here(continues on next page)
- Collector
- James Brunnock
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Doon, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Michael Brunnock
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 49
- Address
- Doon, Co. Tipperary
