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School: St. Brigid's Convent, Kildraught

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Celbridge, Co. Kildare
Teacher:
Sr. Donatus
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0772, Page 061

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    The Blue Poppy
    (Killadoon Garden)
    There is growing in Killadoon Garden an extroardinary flower named the "Blue Poppy", to which much history is attached.
    David Livingstone, while traversing the world with some of his friends, was missing for some days. After some time his friends became anxious about him, and they went out in search of him.
    On reaching the Zambesi River, David spied a wonderful little flower to which he took a great fancy, so he dug up the root with some of its loam and potted it.
    It thrived splendidly and when David reached Ireland he scathered the roots of the flower among his friends, and subsequently some of them succeeded in coming as far as Celbridge, where
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Peggy Redmond
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Killeenlea, Co. Kildare
    Informant
    Mr Kirk
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Killadoon, Co. Kildare