Volume: CBÉ 0189

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1. The Bad Times

   

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   I often heard my mother telling when they lived out in Ballyheaphy (near araglin) in the bad times, about a family named Connollys that lived there.
   They were hungry and badly off, but they were too proud to let on to anyone that they were hungry.
   I heard my mother saying that they were out in the field wan evening working; and they saw a man, and a young fellow with him, coming across the mountain. 'Twas dusk at the time. When he came up near 'em they noticed he had a big bundle on his back.
   Me mother knew the man well. "Yerra Scannallaigh" says the, "cá bfhuil tú 'dul agus cad rá annsinn agat?"
   "Tá sí féin agam, agus táim á tabhair go dtí Mocallop" His wife was dead

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   History Edit

   Date

   Lúnasa 1935

   Item type

   Lore

   Language

   Béarla

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Roman script

   Informant

   • Sinéid Ní Fhlannchaidhe