School: Páirc na bhFiadh (roll number 15585)
- Location:
- Deerpark, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Lil Nic Dhonnchadha
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- Our Lord sat one day in his Paradise, painting the little bird and it happened the colours in his paint-box gave out. So he conceived the idea of making a little grey bird. "Remember your name is Robin Redbreast," He said, and the little bird flew out into the world. When the little grey bird came to a clear pool, he twisted and turned in all directions to see what he looked like, and he could not find a single red feather. So he flew back to Our Lord. "Why should I be called Redbreast when I do not possess one single red feather?" he asked. But Our Lord only smiled a little and said, "I have called you Robin Redbreast and Robin Redbreast shall your name be. You must look to it that you yourself earn your red breast-feathers." So the little bird flew once more out into the(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Joan Anderson
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Erris, Co. Roscommon
