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   When he tried to take the pig Kelly ran after the boy and the priest and beat them.
   Next day was Sunday and Kelly went to mass but when the people saw him they began to run because they thought he was a ghost. He ran as well because he thought it was late. When he heard that his wife was married again he was very angry. The man who was identified as Kelly was from another parish.

   

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2. Scéal

   

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   Once a man was coming home from a fair with a cart of bonhams, which he did not sell. A shopkeeper met him and asked him how much did he want for the Bonhams. The man said that he wanted thirty shillings. He meant thirty shillings each. The shopkeeper said that he would give him thirty shillings for all the bonhams and the other man had to give them all for the thirty shillings. The man who sold the bonhams told Daniel O'Connell about how he was tricked. Daniel asked the man what occupation had the other man. When Daniel was told that he was a shopkeeper he said

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   Topics

   1. agents (~1)
      1. historical persons (~5,068)
         1. Daniel O'Connell (~175)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Pádraig Ó Briain

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   14

   Address

   Ballinamore Bridge, Co. Galway

   Informant

   Pádraig Ó Feallmhain

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   67

   Address

   Charlestown or Pollnamucka, Co. Galway