School: Clifferna

Location:
Clifferna, Co. Cavan
Teacher:
Sister Mc Ardle
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1021, Page 076

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1021, Page 076

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    then the whole country gathered including Terrence Sexton, Frank Brady, Hugh Staford, John Brady Clifferna. He was a poet. They all drank so much that they did not know what to do.
    At four o'clock in the morning they decide to go and ask my grandfather could they broke on the barrel and he said he did not care because he expected it was broke on by that time which it was.
    They got so drunk that they started to fight. One of the police and Terrence Sexton a well known boxer started to fight but he did not succeed in beating him. But Terrence after been badly beaten ran off
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