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   “John Morrissey from Templemore was never...”

   

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   tall and he used to light his pipe off the gas lights in the street. He was in a battle once and he caught two soldiers in each hand and dashed them against the ground Eamon Ó Rian was once pursued by ten English soldiers and he jumped a chasm fourteen yards wife. The soldiers tried to do it but they were dashed off the rocks below. My great grandfather whose name was Gaven ran twenty two miles from English soldiers and when he finished he collapsed and the soldiers caught him. It was dark and they camped. When the soldiers fell my grandfather hit the guard with the butt of a rifle but was shot some months later.

   

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   “Mr T. Condon, Kilmallock, Co Limerick was a great cyclist. ...”

   

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   Mr T. Condon, Kilmallock, Co Limerick was a great cyclist

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   Language

   English

   Collector

   Denis Mc Guigan

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Butler Avenue, Co. Tipperary

   Informant

   Neol Fitzgerald

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Horse and Jockey, Co. Tipperary