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1. The Lady of the Alms

   

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   There was once a lady and she was a great almsgiver. When her master used to be at home, she would go upstairs and when she had no other way of giving she used to take off her inside garment and give it to the poor people. She had three sons and of of them died. He was twenty-one years of age when he died. After that she was greatly enraged with the Son of God. It was not long after that until another son died who was twenty two years old and a great misfortune fell upon them after both of their deaths. Two years after that, the third son died and she went out of her mind. She got a bag and went asking alms like any beggar. She spent the day going on her quest until night was coming on, and she never found no house or shelter under which she might lay her head. She heard a voice above her and she wondered. What has sent you her said the voice, methinks you had no cause to take up this misery were in not your own sencelessness. I had not she said but I think I never did anything on the Son of God and He has taken from me a son who was twenty-one years old. A son as nice as there was in the parish. Well, I did not half mind that until a year afterwards He took the second son from me. That day two - years the third son was taken from me and then I took a bag and said that I would never again do another day's service for God. I was always so good to the Son of God and the Glorious Virgin that I never

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   Language

   English

   Collector

   Rita Duffy

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Cnoc an Tóchair, Co. na Gaillimhe

   Informant

   Patrick Broderick

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   75

   Address

   Cnoc an Tóchair, Co. na Gaillimhe