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School: Shrule (roll number 7795/7796)

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Shrule, Co. Galway
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0038C, Page 06_014

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    Once my father told me how to make a whistle out of a chest-nut. I made a hole in it about as big as the end of a pincil. Then I got a safety pin and scooped the inside out of it. Then I blew into it and it whistled like any whistle.
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    “The night of the big wind there was a house and the roof was not very well down....”

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    Language
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    Tomás Ó Cnámhtáin
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