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School: Inniskeen (roll number 13396)

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Inishkeen, Co. Monaghan
Teacher:
Louis A. Duffy
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0933, Page 002

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    crippled. The whole crowd seeing this rushed to get out of the house for they thought she had become alive again so, they did not venture to go back that night.
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    About fifty five years ago, a school master, Mr. Martin, was teaching in Louth Boy's School.
    The big boy's going to school used to play many tricks. But one boy called Joe Byrne being in the habit of setting the school fire each morning prepared to play a good trick. Going to school one morning he took with him a large chestnut and placing it
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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. jokes (~6,086)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mary Campbell
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Chanonrock, Co. Louth
    Informant
    Joe Kieran
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Chanonrock, Co. Louth