School: Baile Droichid, Cathair Dún Iascaigh (roll number 10533)

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1. A Fenian Story (continued)

   

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   in the district joined in the movement, and he went to a neighbour who was one of them, One morning before to hear if it had any news. He was a middling old man but determined. He had no gun but he asked my grand-father to come out and he would show him how he would kill the English soldiers. he put a saddle on a little grey horse he had, and produced about a foot of top part of a scythe with a long handle. He mounted the horse and rode out into a field near the house, that was full of thistles. He galloped the horse round the field, steered him with one hand and cut the heads off the thistles as quick as he could with the scythe as he went along, and after a few rounds he rode up to my grandfather and said "That is the way I intend to do for the soldiers when we meet". But his plans did not come true although they met at the

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   Topics

   1. gníomhairí (~1)
      1. daoine
         1. cumainn rúnda (~18)
            1. Fíníní (~141)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Margaret Nugent

   Gender

   Female

   Informant

   Mr P. Nugent

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   50

   Address

   Béal Átha Droichid, Co. Thiobraid Árann