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School: Hospital Convent (roll number 13898)

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Hospital, Co. Limerick
Teacher:
Sr. Bernard
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0515, Page 067

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    very interesting and tell very plausible stories to further these pleadings but when met with refusal their demeanour readily shows their feelings.
    Singers and travelling musicians are another section of the itinerant community who sing, and play music through the villages and towns, collect money from shopkeepers stay for a night in lodging houses and are off in the morning to the next village or town.
    Gypsies are another of the wandering tribe who travel through the country. They generally travel in wagons drawn by piebald horses loaded with wicker baskets, chairs, tarpaulin, mats, etc. some of their women folk are very
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. agents (~1)
      1. people by social grouping
        1. travellers (~3,023)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Kitty Jones
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Hospital, Co. Limerick
    Informant
    Mr P. Condon
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Hospital, Co. Limerick