School: Meelick (B.)
- Location:
- Míleac, Co. an Chláir
- Teacher: Eoghan Ó Néill
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- (continued from previous page)at same time as Tom Hicky. He'd prefer coppers to silver. He'd stay as long as he was kept - sometimes a week or a fortnight. He used to pluck the dead geese for the people.
He also was a simpleton. He used to sing:-
Seán Ó duibhir an Ghleanna & accompany himself with music on the tongs.
If anyone laughed while he was singing, there was a row.
Anyone he didn't care for was a "lúbán of a fool".If sometimes happened that Tom Hickey & Mick Bourke put up at the same house together - notably Solomon(continues on next page)
