Volume: CBÉ 0463 (Part 2)

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1. Eviction on Christmas Eve and the Result (continued)

   

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   and his face was turned round on his shoulders.

   

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2. A Clergyman Insulted

   

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   During the Famine, a Clergyman was on his way to a Sick Call at Tarmon. The Clergyman had taken his little dog with him and made a short cut through S ___'s Demesne to the house where the person lay dying.
   When passing through this demesne the clergyman met S___ who strongly objected to dogs on his demesne. Nor, was he a lover of the Catholic Religion. Accosting the Clergyman he called the Clergyman, a "Black-guard".
   On the Sunday following, this Clergyman referred to it from the pulpit- saying, "S__ called me a Black - guard - but here from the pulpit , I call him a Blackguard, and I'll stick a plaster on his back that he cannot remove."
   On the Thursday after this announcement from the pulpit S__s

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   Item type

   Lore

   Language

   Béarla

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Roman script