School: Cill an Daingin
- Location:
- Killadangan, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Tomás Mac Domhnaill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0533, Page 443
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- (continued from previous page)dishonoured by us? Are the laws of hospitality, which had always been kept sacred by our forefathers, to be violated by us? Trampled on, in sooth, because they accord not with thy notion of things, my gentle brother? The prejudices of every class of society, no matter in what degree they may be at variance with your individual feelings, must, if not respected, at least be borne with. The customs of a country should be ever particularly attended to by those who wish to live among the people to whom they have been handed down as a sort of heirloom from generation to generation! Never shall the peasant's wife instruct her prattling offspring to lisp the name of O'Brien O'Brien in abhorrence, nor the peasant stripling point me out as the tyrant contemner of the castle. You, O'Kennedy have the cowled monks and the surpliced Friars chanting Requiems over the inanimate body of our father; and such, I own, may be necessary." The old O'Brien was interred in the graveyard of Dromineer, with all the rude[?] pomp and ceremony befitting him; and the brothers did not return to the castle for a year.
On their return both were changed; O'Kennedy was thoughtful and melancholy; O'Brien morose and stern. The former spent most of his time(continues on next page)
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- Gender
- Female
