School: The Spa, Tráighlí
- Location:
- Spa, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Ml. Breathnach
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0438, Page 289
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“At a meeting of the Committee of Management of the Royal National Life Boat Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck held at their offices, London, on the 18th day of March 1926, the following minute was ordered to be recorded on the books ”
Speaking at Fenit, the birthplace of the great sailor saint, Brendan, on the ocasion of the launching of a life-boat, name "The Admiral Butcher", Reverend D. O'Donoghue, P. P., Ardfert, referred to St. Brendan, and his voyages in the following words: "As far as history, and even legend carry us back, the people of this district have been brave, and daring seamen. The earliest name we find for them in Irish history is "feara-feorna," which may be Englished, "long-shore-men," and from amongst them sprang the bravest, and greatest sailor that perhaps the(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Michael Breathnach
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Teacher