School: Virginia (B)
- Location:
- Virginia, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: E. Ó Raghallaigh
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- (continued from previous page)an old member of of the Fenians. He was a great (member) worker and could mow two acres of hay in one day. He can speak Irish very fluently. He is a great thatcher and tatches his own house still without the aid of anyone.
- John Farrelly was born about eighty years ago in Cross, but he is dead a few years back. The trade he had was a jobber but (it wa) he was a great poet. If he saw a man going down the street he would make up a poem about him inside five minutes. There is a public house between Couthill and Grousehall called the Beehive. The man who owned the bar put an advertisement and this is what was written on it:-
"Within this hive were all alive,
Good whiskey makes us funny, (when)
When going by come in and try,
The flavour of our honey."
John was going by this day and read the advertisement and wrote this answer.
Then I came dry and I'd like to try, (tl)
The flavour of your honey,(continues on next page) - Collector
- Willie Stephens
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Virginia, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Matthew Rodgers
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 64
- Address
- Virginia, Co. Cavan
