School: Carraigíní (Carrigans)

Location:
Carrigans, Co. Donegal
Teacher:
Máire E. Ní Stiopháin
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  1. A Dialogue (continued)

    This is a conversation which was heard between a pig jobber an some small farmers who were on their way to Derry with pigs to sell.

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    candidate's names, and you go into a booth and make your mark against the one you vote for, and that's the whole of it."
    farmer. "Well now, A wud just like you'd tell me if this is the way o' it. A have a vote maybe, and we'll say this gentleman" (pointing to man on right) "axes me for it an maybe A promise it till him, and then that gentleman we'll say" (pointing to man on left) "he's the other candidate, "and he axes me for it, an' maybe A promise it till him too. An maybe A vote for the wan, or
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