School: Convent Girls' School, Ballymote
- Location:
- Ballymote, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Sr. M. Patrick
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0183, Page 101
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- Once upon a time an Irishman and
an Englishman got out of a train
at a certain station in Ireland, and
the Englishman said to the Irishman
"I am going now to Killkenny"
"Your what" gasped the Irishman
"I said I was going to Killkenny
isnt that what I came over the
whole way from England for, thats
what I intended to do all along.
"You're going to Kill Kenny"
gasped the Irishman who did not
know all the places in Ireland
and thought the Englishman was
going to Kill somebody named Kenny
"Yes I am going to Killkenny, are
you coming with me" said the
Englishman.
Begorra I am not, if you think
I am going to take part in any murder, faith your mistaken no
matter what poor ould Kenny has
done to you ho done nothing to me
and I wont help to murder him."
