School: Doirín Dáimh Dheirg / Dereendafderg (roll number 13469)
- Location:
- Doire an Daimh Dheirg, Co. Mhaigh Eo
- Teacher: Liam Seóighe
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0090D, Page 16_029
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- (continued from previous page)he gestures wildly, and when he smiles he bares his teeth and closes his eyes tightly.
I saw him one day at a fair in Tourmakeady, and there was a terrible crowd around him and when I arrived on the scene I saw "The Tumbler" and he was standing on a wall and the ground underneath covered with broken bottles. Barrett was barefooted. Every now and then he would leap from the wall into the midst of the bottles and there was no trace of any scar on his feet when he finished.
He always comes to Tourmakeady on fair-days and he gathers a crowd around him like a jam-jar gather wasps on(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Bríghid Ní Ging
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Doire an Daimh Dheirg, Co. Mhaigh Eo
