School: Inis (B.) (roll number 15042)
- Location:
- Ennis, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Seoirse Ó Maoldhomhnaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0609, Page 437
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- (continued from previous page)Martin Curtin. Martin Curtin is a nice clean man. He dresses very respectably and he keeps himself yery tidy but, when he gets drink, he goes around begging money and will not take any food. When he gets drunk, the people run home and bar the doors from him.
One day he went out in the country to sell and ass and trap for two pounds to help to bury his wife. When he was leaving the caravan he warned his daughter to have his dinner ready when he would conne home. She said that she would. She put down the dinner to boil and then she went out to play.
When she came to boil the dinner the fire was out. She held her head over the fire to put oil in it, and her clothes caught fire and ran up our field roaring. My step-father and two boys saw her and they ran to(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Francis Mulqueen
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cloghlea, Co. Clare
