School: Srónaill (Shronell) (roll number 15008)
- Location:
- Shronell, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Liam Ó Catháin
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- (continued from previous page)on one of the officers of the dragons named Captain Hartnett.
Damer had his own army in fear he would be robbed because the roads were dangerous in those days.
- When Liam would get tired of teaching school he would get the fiddle and put it under the coat and he would go on to the road and start playing the fiddle along the road and when he would go into a house the people would be prepared to share their food with him he would find his way along the road with a stick and when he would go to the first village he would stay there for three or four days playing the fiddle he would do that at every village untill he would come to the town of Croom to a friend by the name of Seán Clárach Mac Domhnaill and when the blind fiddler would be there there would be a great welcome for him that night they would start a dance and the blind fiddler would play his fiddle the day after he would send word to two other friends and the night after the would come and the would have their latest songs and a lot of people would be judging the best songs. Liam was a great spree boy he would buy a mug of uisge beatha or whiskey for a penny after that Liam would start for home again playing his fiddle along the road.
- When the English started to plant Ireland(continues on next page)
