School: Adare Convent (roll number 9296)

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1. How Mark Johnson Became a Catholic (continued)

   

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   a thatcher doing the house and the bread was baking in the oven and as soon as it was baked he boasted how he was still alive. "You did not eat it yet", said the holy old woman and the first bit he put to his mouth he fell dead. Mark Johnson saw all this. He was 21 years at the time and wished to become a Catholic and so he did. His people threw him out of his home and he got half blind from sleeping out of doors. The old woman told him to get a basket and pedal his way down to the south of Ireland. Mark was a very good Catholic and often walked 12 miles fasting to receive holy communion.

   From Con Normoyle, Rour, Adare, (55 years)

   

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2. A Relic of the Fenian Rising of 1867

   

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   A relic of the Fenian rising of 1867.

   I have the stock and lock of an old pistol that was taken off a horse policeman between Croom and Bruree by a man named

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   Language

   English

   Informant

   Con Normoyle

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   55

   Address

   Rower More, Co. Limerick