Volume: CBÉ 0407 (Part 2)

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1. Bradle, Agent, Shot Dead in Tipperary (continued)

   

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   Michael Hayes was wounded the same day. He fired at Bradle and Bradle fired at him, but the finish of it was that he shot Bradle as dead as a cock. He lost his health from sleeping out when he was dodging the peelers and with that and the effects of his wounds he did not live for many years. I heard that his body was brought to be buried in a load of hay. The man who make the song was arrested for making them at least for making the first one. When he got out of gaol, he changed the song into the " Fox Chase"

   "In Cappawhite I slept one night
   "Being arrested in the morning early"
   "I ran to Toem and soon reached Doon
   "Where I knew each nook and corner
   "And I did not lag crossing COOGA Bog
   "But I jumped the deep dead water
   "Tallyho"
   Usual curfá as Gaedhilg

   "You should have known a daughter of his, Peig Hayes. She had that house (in Doon) where Cramer now has the meat stall. She had a public business (= public house) but she usedn't serve in the shop herself. She used to let it to different parties.

   Quinlan, another farmer from Castletown, was

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   Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.

   History Edit

   Date

   20 August 1937

   Item type

   Lore

   Language

   English

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Roman script

   Informants

   • Michael Quirke
   • Daniel Mahoney