School: Duncormick
- Location:
- Duncormick, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: P. S. Ó hEachthigheirn
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- Local HeroesBetween sixty and seventy years ago, there lived a man named Michael Nolan, who resided at the Ring, Killag.
This man's earnings were usually made by task work, for he was able to mow one Irish acre per day with the sycthe, and at the end of his day's work he would sole three pairs of boots, and deliver them to their owner, before retiring to rest.
He was the father of eleven happy children who, when they grew up, emigrated to America.
Some of the children wrote a letter to their aged father, who was then about sixty-five, to come and join them in the "Land of the Stars and and Stripes."
He also migrated to this foreign land where he afterwards died an old and helpless man.Pat Breen,
Redmoor,
Duncormick.
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- Pat Breen
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Redmoor, Co. Wexford
