School: An Páirtín
- Location:
- Parteen, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Ciarán Ó Ceallaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0599, Page 523
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- Once upon a time hundreds and hundreds of years ago there lived a very wealthy man and his wife and two children a little boy named James and a little girl named Joyce. They lived very happily but while the children were still young their mother died and then a very sad thing happened.
Two years later their father got married again but the stepmother was very cross and cruel to the little stepchildren.
Their father was a postmaster and it was very late at night when he came in but one night he came in earlier than usual and his wife had the(continues on next page)
