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School: Derryquay, Tráighlí

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Derryquay, Co. Kerry
Teacher:
Ml. Ó Catháin
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    “There was a man and a woman living in Ireland long ago.”

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    he was not long gone when the captain's brother started making love to the captain's wife but she did not care about him. He was asking her to come here and there to the pictures and the Opera house but no good. One day after the captain being gone he brought in a message from the ship that she foundered and all hands were lost and this did not make the woman care anything more about the captain.
    One day an old woman dies and the son told the father to get ready and to go with him to the wake. Indeed I won't" said the father "how could you expect me to go and leave that girl alone with her child." "How careful you are of her? didn't that poor woman come to you, when your wife was dead. "We will only be away one hour" said the son "and do come?. Finally he persuaded the father and away they went. Like most of old people when they reached the house, the father moved up to the fire while the son stayed near the door. When the son go the father in conversation with the rest of the old men he said to himself that now was his time to have revenge on this woman that rejected his love and now so? ever was his opportunity. Away he came. He had to break in the window because she had the door locked. The woman escaped, but he killed the child. Then he ran back to the same place where he was in the wake. The whole thing did not take fifteen minutes so that nobody
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    AT0712: Crescentia
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Andrew Keane
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    12
    Address
    Curraheen, Co. Kerry
    Informant
    Patrick Griffin
    Relation
    Relative (other than parent or grandparent)
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    68
    Occupation
    Farmer
    Address
    Cappananee, Co. Kerry