School: Díseart, Droichead Átha (roll number 1434)
- Location:
- Dysart, Co. Louth
- Teacher: M. Ní Ailpín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0672, Page 116
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- (continued from previous page)her son was she said she could not remember the name, but that there was an "al" at the end of it. The gentlemen asked her was it a Corporal. "No" she says "not a corporal". "Well my dear woman, is it a General" he is"? "No not a General," says the woman. "Well I do not know what he could be" says the gentleman, "is it a scoundral" That you honour is what he is," says the poor woman "Well," says the gentleman, "he was that before he joined the army at all."
- Collector
- Paddy Fitzpatrick
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Grangebellew, Co. Louth
