School: Baile an Bhile (C.) (roll number 15488)

Location:
Ballinvilla Demesne, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
Bríd Nic Giollachlaoin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0110, Page 265

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  1. In the year nineteen hundred and twenty one when the black and tans were here in Ireland many burnings occurred.
    When the trouble began the police in all barracks in quiet districts were removed to the towns.
    On a certain night the Sinn Fein members burned about sixty of those evacuated buildings.
    There was one burned near my home in the village of Redpark
    (continues on next page)
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    1. events
      1. hardship (~1,565)
        1. fires (~306)
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