School: Cromadh (B.)
- Location:
- Croom, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Dáithí Ó Ceanntabhail
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0507, Page 071
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“When I was a young lad at home I used often hear a story about a family in which there were three boys who lost their lives through the anxiety of their parents that their sons should have a knowledge of the English language.”
(continued from previous page)number of the weekly Freeman, some time after I had first heard the story, a ballad or poetic version which began, "There dwelt beside the Comeraghs.... brothers young and three". I think that version, of which I definitely remember only the opening line, was the product of an Irish language enthusiast who sought by that means to "Point a moral and adorn a tale".
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