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1. The Landlords (continued)

   

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   The mob intended to kill the two, but Fr Madden the parish priest of Clonakilty at that time came into the carriage with them, and so saved them from the mob. Up stepped an old woman nicknamed "Mairín ḃat" to the carriage, and facing Jones, Leslie and Fr Madden, she made a great speech, which was subsequently made into a ballad. My Grandmother said she remembered only a few lines of it.

   "For Jones and Leslie she didnt care,
   But she said there should be no tyrant there
   In the peaceful town of Clonakilty."

   When the boycott came around, Fr, O Leary boycotted Jones, his cows were left in his yard without milking, and his daughters proud, college educated, ladies who knew little about milking had to put on bag aprons, and milk them themselves.
   A man named Jimmy Hurley was evicted from his farm in Shannonvale. Father Lucy had a hut known as "the evicted hut" built for him. Word was brought to Jimmy Hurley that he was to be arrested. There was a mill on his farm, where Thomas O Leary Castleview works now. He went up to the top of the mill by the lift, and when he

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   Topics

   1. place-space-environment
      1. land management (~4,110)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Cáitlín Ní Miodhache

   Gender

   Female