School: Ballyhack Convent
- Location:
- Ballyhack, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: An tSr Treasa
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- (continued from previous page)escape from the city in ships outward bound; but how could they get through the ban-dogs at Passage.The orange pilots and custom's officers had a keener scent and a sharper look out for the hated croppies, than they had for conatraband goods and they would dive into every possible place of concealment in a ships hold, with the same avidity as terriers would burrow after rats. It was no uncommon thing in those days to see men taken ashore at Passage, who were making their escape, and taken to Geneva Barracks for execution, torture or expatriation.The Catholic or National party in Passage and Geneva if they did not quietly (-) in these transactions of the orange bigots, they certainly showed no(continues on next page)
