Volume: CBÉ 0460 (Part 1)

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   “There is another story told of an experience a priest had with a protestant.”

   

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   he had said to him on the road. The priest axcepted the invitation and went down to the Protestant man's house. When he got there he looked in through the window and he saw the man inside and he putting bullets in a gun, or small revolver. The priest then knew well enough what his invitation meant and he said to himself that it would surely be dangerous to walk into that house unprepared He said to himself also that he would go in no matter what happened. So he took out his prayer book and started to pray, and he prayed away for a long time. Then he went inside and straight down to the room where the man was sitting with the gun in his hand. The Protestant man the moment he saw turned a very sour look at him and he bared his teeth and made no effort

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   History Edit

   Date

   December 1937

   Item type

   Lore

   Language

   English

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Gaelic script

   Informant

   • Pádraig Ó Ruairc