School: West Waterford Branch I.N.T.O (roll number n/a)
- Location:
- Coshmore and Coshbride, Co. Waterford
- Teacher: James Cashman
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0640, Page 145
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“The most famous of all the poets in the district was a man named Pádruig de Faoithe (Patrick White).”
(continued from previous page)be still alive (He did not tell me who they were).Padraig's worst failing was in getting into trouble with the female sex. He so far got himself that the priest had to banish him from the parish. He went to some place in Tipperary and was not long there when he fell into his old ways again. One Sunday the priest there denounced him at the altar and asked him to leave the parish. Padraig who was in the church stood up to go but before going he spoke to the priest in the following terms.De dheasgadh ban a tháinig peacadh an t-sinnsir (?)De dheasgadh ban a leagadh Cathair na TréitheDe dheasgadh ban a thánag-sa go dte sibhIs de dheasgadh ban atá sibh anois am dhibirt
His poem "Na Prátaí Dubha" is a story about himself when he was short of potatoes. He travelled to a place called Inchiquin(continues on next page)
- Collector
- James Cashman
- Gender
- Male