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School: Tairbeart (C.)

Location:
Tarbert, Co. Kerry
Teacher:
Máire, Bean Uí Chonaill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0404, Page 164

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    of their lives, and by God's grace, escaped. As wonderful was the escape of the death cart attendants, but they were not spoken kindly of. They took risks innumerable to be sure, but they risked for pay, not for kindness, and appear to have been mostly a coarse kind of people, generally drunk and sodden, and treating the poor dead bodies with as little respect as they would dead dogs.
    The loss of life was terrible. Ships of the most wretched type sailed from Tarbert to America. Of one vessel and its cargo
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    History Edit
    Language
    English
    Informant
    Robert Quill
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    63
    Occupation
    Teacher
    Address
    Tarbert, Co. Kerry