School: Cromadh (B.)

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1. Local Traditions - Historical and Otherwise (continued)

   

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   16 year old" stronghold. The Shkule and surrounding people were "four-year olds."

   

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2. Local Traditons - Historical and Otherwise - From What I Used to Hear at Home

   

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   When I was a boy of from eight to twelve years, a few of the neighbours would come in of a night "ar cuardaigheacht" (that was the word used) There would be talk on various subjects; among others Napoleon and Waterloo used to get more than their own share. The disposition of the opposing forces would be marked out, in imaginary lines, on the hearth with a stick. On many points there would be differences of opinion, and heated arguments in support of varying views of the parties to the disputation, but on one point there was common agreement and that was on the defection of Grouchy.

   "Bad luck to Grouchy the traitor he let Bony down"

   was often the only statement that called forth a common accord.

   "And Moscow it lay blazing 'neath the bonny bunch of roses, oh"

   would be sung by my father as a sort of lamentation for Napoleon's downfall, a kind of "finale" to the argument.

   "Grouchy the traitor" and "Perry Nagle the spy"

   were both held in the greatest contumely at our fireside and Blucher was as heartily hated there as I think it was possible for a dead man to be. There was no doubt in their minds, as they sat and argued about that momentous affair, but that Grouchy had been "bought" and that Blucher's action was a fluke.

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   Language

   English

   Collector

   Daithí Ó Ceanntabhail

   Gender

   Male

   Occupation

   Múinteoir