Volume: CBÉ 0485 (Part 1)
- Date
- 1938
- Collector
- Locations
Archival Reference
The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0485, Page 0105
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“This is is thrue a sthory is ever happened, that I'm goin' ta tell ye.”
(continued from previous page)Now its an ould belief that its the pershon who sees the ghosht, not the ghosht who should spake firsht so the man mushtened up all the courage that he had left in him afther the sthart he got, an sez he
"Is that you?"
"Tis me" sez the Ghosht.
"An fot di want" sez the man "or fots throublin' ye?"
Di ye remember the bottle o whiskey we sthole out o' the public house in Rhivershtown the night long go sez the ghosht, well I'll never be at resht sez he until thats paid for.
"I'll pay for it sez the man, an immediately the ghosht vanished. The man went home, an' went to bed, an' did he get up the nexht day? Ah Boboo He didn't nor for a fortnight afther, but when he got betther he paid for the bottle o' whiskey, an' the ghosht was never seen afther.
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“There is an ould thradition about our Irish exiles who die in foreign lands.”
There is an ould thradition about our Irish exiles who die in foreign lands. They say, that if they have a great love for Ireland, an' wish to be buried at home that their bodies will be brought back to Ireland in a fog, an' interned in their [UNCLEAR] grave-(continues on next page)