Volume: CBÉ 0460 (Part 1)

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   “In the '98 period here in the Co. Wexford…”

   

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   red in his face. Another thing he was often heard to say was that along with his face being red it always felt hot the very same as if he was always blushing. In the end he could not stand it any longer and he went and ended his own life.

   

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   “There was another priest lived in the county about the troubled times,…”

   

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   There was another priest lived in the county about the troubled times, and he made some kind of a speech in reference to the hardships that the Yeomen were inflicting on the helpless Irish and he told them all to club together and show no mercy to the English. There was wan officer in the English army and he heard all this talk. There was a spy or something of that kind in the crowd that were listening to the speech and he got it all. This officer had a house of his own in the locality and wan night,

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   Date

   December 1937

   Item type

   Lore

   Language

   English

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Gaelic script

   Informant

   • Pádraig Ó Ruairc