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School: Dunshaughlin (B.)

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Dunshaughlin, Co. Meath
Teacher:
Gearóid Mac Gabhann
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0687, Page 216

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    The blackbird is a good singer. Around here they believe if you split a blackbird tongue with a threepenny bit he will talk.
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    The robin got it's name on the time of Christ's Death, a gypsy had him under his coat and he was going up a mountain and he saw a crowd of people walking along, and a man in the middle with a cross on His shoulder's he follow them until they got to the top when they got there the jews left the nails on a stone and turned to Christ when he saw what they were going to do, and he told the bird to go over and take one of the nails and then another but he had time to take one then they
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