School: Killea (roll number 3219)
- Location:
- Killea, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Séamus Mac Coilín
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0195, Page 242
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Killea
- XML Page 242
- XML “Seán Mac Dermott”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- (continued from previous page)to live with his aunt in Glangevlin in the parish of Killinagh County Cavan where he went to Tullinamoyle National School and completed his education. He was now "man able" and he went to Glasgow to earn a living. After spending three years as a gardener there he returned to Belfast with the thought of doing something for his country. He got a job as a train conductor in Belfast and after some time he came in contact wtih the I.R.B. leaders who on account of his being an eloquent speaker and a good organizor sent him to Dublin where the important leaders were. In 1907 there was an election in North Leitrim at which Séan gave great support to the Sinn Fein Candidate. He made speeches in several places including Manorhamiliton and Kiltyclogher but on account of the Hibernians being very strong he met with(continues on next page)
- Collector
- James Mc Loughlin
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Lugasnaghta, Co. Leitrim
- Informant
- Patrick Mc Loughlin
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Lugasnaghta, Co. Leitrim
