Volume: CBÉ 0485 (Part 2)

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1. The Big House at Willsbrook

   

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   my sister. Biddie, was kithcen maid in the big home at Willsbrook. miss Mary anne, frequently spoke of the Fenians.

   Her bushes ,W. Paul, and his two sons had joined the Fenians. but miss Mary Anne was. her bed room window looked out on a big stretch of land.

   When the moon was shining Miss Mary Annie frequently sat in her room seeing through the window about two score young Fenians on horse-back, galloping up and down the 'big fields' near the " River Suck," training for the expected 'Rising'. Her two nephews were Captains, and had every horse in their fathers' stables mounted by a Fenian. miss mary anne never disclosed on her nephews, and if

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   Item type

   Lore

   Language

   Béarla

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Roman script