Volume: CBÉ 0265
- Date
- 1935
- Collector
- Location
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- Stories of '98 Recorded from Thos. Ellis, Ballasalla, Hacketstown
Received 11.6.1935
Tom is feeble & finds it very hard to express himself. He is not & never was a storyteller & any peculiar idioms which he uses are ones that slip from him unconsciously have been picked up from his grandmother by continuous repitition. He is easily confused & has not himself a very clear picture of the things of which he speaks - he is rather a dictaphone record of his grandmothers stories. Little questions completely confusess him. He has never had to anything for himself having spent his whole life with a(continues on next page)