School: Scoil Mhuire (B.)

Location:
Skull, Co. Cork
Teacher:
Liam Ó Raghallaigh
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  1. In Ireland at the time of the famine there lived a man in the parish of Goleen, who met a minister and the minister he offered to give him a bag of potatoes if he would become a protestant. The man said he would, but he did not go to church very often and when the minister asked him why he did not go to church, he said, "I went to church for the good of my body, and went to mass for the good of my soul."
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