School: Clashaganny (roll number 8051)
- Location:
- Clashaganny, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Albert Flanagan
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0252, Page 173
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- It was custom of Charlie Hawkes every autumn after the harvest had been gathered in to go for a week or so up to Dublin. He always went with pocket fulls of money and where he used to go to chiefly was to some of the gambling dens that were run on the quite in that city. Sometimes Charlie had luck and some times he was cleaned out so completely that he had ti borrow what would bring him home One day a friend a Galway landlord met him down and out looking into the Liffey with a wild glare in his eyes. What is the matter with you Charlie says he clapping him on the back. Matter said Hawkes I'm ruined robbed a beggar I have not a roof over my head this blessed day. Then he tells him how he had been at a certain gambling house the night before and that first he had lost all his money then he staked his horses and carriage and lost that too and in trying to get them(continues on next page)
- Informant
- James Gibbons
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Clashaganny, Co. Roscommon
