School: Sailcheartáin (Sillahetane), Dúnmaonmhuighe
- Location:
- Sillahertane, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Íte Ní Chléirigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0304, Page 073
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- (continued from previous page)temper, & would brook no contradictions.
He had a very peculiar accent & had an odd way of expressing himself. Some of the boys could imitate him to perfection; one of them (Tommy Desmond) was such a perfect mimic that his pals used call him "Tadg Leather."
This is a sample of one of Tadg's stories:-
"Once I gotone of me eyes out, I saved the eye & put it in me pocket, & went up to Cork to Dr Sandford to get the eye "slapped" in.
There was a fine "furzy boreen" going up to the Dr's house, I struck up this boreen, & knocked at the door. Mrs Sandford herself opened the door for me. She took me in to a "nate" big room & told me wait for the Dr. After a while, in comes the Dr & I told me story to him, but what do you think he did? Well he put a cat's eye in me head & saved me own eye for his ould "whake" of a wife.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Henrietta Clarke
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Sillahertane, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Mr G. Clarke
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Inch East, Co. Cork
