School: Naomh Eoin, Cill Choinnigh (roll number 1301)
- Location:
- Kilkenny, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Bráthair Tomás Mac Binéid
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0856, Page 115
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- (continued from previous page)away she flew crying! crying! Oh! what awful wailing is still in my ears. I hurried home through the hills and arrived at last at the homestead. I expected to her the music and mirth of a joyous gathering inside.
"My God." No. There was the bare cottage the door flung wide, four lights burned. Breathless I rushed inside. "Merciful God" twas my mother dead! Dead and white as the fallen leaves, with my brothers and sisters kneeling at her bedside. In the distance I could hear the faint cry of the Banshee and with the echo dying! dying! dying! in my ears I kissed the cold lips of my dead mother."
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