School: Gleann na gCreabhar (Anglesboro), Baile Mhistéala (roll number 10262)
- Location:
- Anglesborough, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Cadhla
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0514, Page 134
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“In my young days the people ate only three meals a day i.e breakfast, dinner, and supper.”
(continued from previous page)Archbishop of Cashel and Emly. Fellows that time were often twenty years of age when they were being confirmed. Anyway there was one big fellow there that day and the Archbishop asked him which was the Father or the Son the older and he answered in Irish and said:-
"mo chroidhe 'á mhisneadh ní seanduine"
(Ní bhfuiginn feín aon cheart a bhaint as an abairt seo - P.S. Ó Cadhla)
(this is "I have great doubts on the Old Fellow)
There was a great laugh in the Church and the Archbishop himself enjoyed the joke.Some years ago the present Archbishop was giving Confirmation in Kilbehenny and he asked one of the boys
"what is grace?"
"The top of the pot, Sir" was the reply.Another day Paddy Fitzgerald was asking a boy how many Gods were there (Paddy is the hedge schoolmaster already spoken about). The boys said "Three."
The boy was just about to be punished when he pointed out the door of the(continues on next page)
- Informant
- William Casey
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 78
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Baurnagurrahy, Co. Limerick