School: Clanna Caoilte (B.) (roll number 12286)
- Location:
- Clonakilty, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Ss. Ó Síthe
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0311, Page 258
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- (continued from previous page)impelled him to take up a soldier’s life.No wonder his comrades loved him. On one occasion Dick met a political prisoner who had escaped from the custody of the Crown Forces in a Cork hospital disguised as a nurse. Owing to an oversight the fugitive had not been provided with boots when he changed his disguise. Dick immediately took off his boots and gave them to his comrade and had himself to walk some miles in his socks before he could procure another pair of boots. It was only one of the several unselfish acts that ennobled that very noble character.Under regrettable circumstances the British authorities came into possession of certain information regarding the West Cork Brigade. Dick was arrested in the spring of 1921 and interned in Spike Island(continues on next page)
