School: An Bóthar Buí (C.) (roll number 16397)
- Location:
- Boherboy, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Eilís, Bean Uí Bhraoin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0354, Page 315
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- (continued from previous page)or bush, and she lines it with wisps of hay, moss, and feathers.
The robin was once an ordinary brown bird.
This is the story of how he got his red breast:-
When the jewish soldiers were searching for Our Savious, the robin saw the soldiers. They were going to put him to death when they caught him. The robin knew this and he had seen Our Lord passing that way some time before the soldiers went on his pursuit.
Our Lord was sweating Blood from his Sacred Body. The robin flew after him, and lay his breast on the blood, so as to prevent the pursuit of the soldiers.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Una Tarrant
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Laharan West, Co. Cork
