Volume: CBÉ 0463 (Part 2)

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1. Fenians

   

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   Fenians
   Taken down from a woman born 1873.

   My father was a Fenian and the Fenians collected at our house at Derryrode Williamstown, every night.
   The Fenians were sworn to secrecy and mother told us, that any person who gave them away, "would be carded with cards, the same, as by which wool was carded."
   One night our house was raided by the Police. They enquired of Mother
   "Where her husband was?"
   She replied _"She did not know, he was not in the home"._So the Police, with the light from a candle climbed up to the loft in the kitchen, searched around and tumbled up everything there _ Not finding my father they came down again into the kitchen _ looked into the meal chest _ under the beds and into

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