Scoil: Duxtown, Rathkeale (uimhir rolla 15943)

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1. The Shooting of Major Hare at Mount Henry Rathkeale (ar lean)

   

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   (ar lean ón leathanach roimhe)

   This house was only a few yards from the main road at Reens where the military funeral of Major Hare passed by the following evening. Just on the road outside this old house, the horses drawing the "remains" of the Major took fright and as they plunged and reared, the coffin was thrown on the road. The lid of the coffin got unfastened and the dead body was thrown out. When the soldiers put the corpse into the coffin they were startled to see the Major's nose was "broken in two". The Whiteboy witnessed the incident from the house in which he was hiding. This whiteboy managed to escape and got on a ship bound for America.
   On his voyage he got friendly with one of the officers, in the

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   Tras-scríofa ag duine dár meitheal tras-scríbhneoirí deonacha.

   Stair Athraigh

   Teanga

   Béarla

   Bailitheoir

   Eibhlís Ní Gráda

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