Scoil: Sheanmore (uimhir rolla 16197)

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1. Transcription

   

   Roinn Roinn Postáil

   Here is a letter from an Irishman born in exile. It describes his father one of those fine old folk who were driven from Ireland during the hard years which came after the famine. Hard-working capable fine folk they were, those exiles who carried across the seas the seed of the race and the flame of the faith.
   The letter writer says:
   My father rest his soul must have received a good grounding in the three R's from whatever teacher taught him down in County Galway. He was well up in arithmetic, Euclid and Algebra, and I have heard him tell that lads in Ireland used to go to school master at night until they were as big as grown men, always hungry for knowledge. When he had to leave Ireland in his youth

   

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

   Stair Athraigh

   Teanga

   Béarla

   Bailitheoir

   Pádraig Ó hÓrdha

   Inscne

   Fireann