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   for the priest and asked for a shilling. The priest refused him and said it was a shame to be always drinking. Billie started off to ask his daughter who lived in Dublin for a shilling, in his bare feet. The girl was so ashamed of him that she gave him four shillings and hunted him. Home Billie came and was happy for a long time.
   He died in Delvin Hospital and is buried in Fore. His son. who is dead also, was a famous tailor, but he did not possess the gift of poetry like Billie.

   

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2. A Famous Poet

   

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   About sixty years ago there lived in Collinstown a poet named Billy Kennedy. He was a tall wiry man, of about sixty years of age. He had three sons, named Tom, Kit and Joe. Tom was a tailor, Kit was a

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   Topics

   1. agents (~1)
      1. historical persons (~5,068)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Mairséal Ní Mhaoileóin

   Gender

   Female

   Age

   13

   Address

   Kilcumny, Co. Westmeath