School: Barradubh (Sixmilebridge)
- Location:
- Barraduff, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Dómhnall Ua Donnchadha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0457, Page 292
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- (continued from previous page)"Picking Oakham." He used to sing a song about the daily routine of a prisoner's life during that period. One line was:-"To pick a pound of "oakham" sure I'd rather live in hell"This gives an idea of how difficult the picking of curled hair was. A few balls of rope when "picked" would fill a flour bag.By the way a small change was made in prison life as a result of what happened one day when my Uncle Connie O'Donoghue was in gaol. When at exercise the prisoners were made to march around a small circle one after another with a warder in charge. It was annoying to the prisoners to be marching in the same direction constantly.One day Connie was getting a reeling in his head from going in one direction and all of a sudden shouted "About turn." The prisoners all thought the order came from the warder(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Dómhnall Ua Donnchadha
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Múinteoir
