School: Poll an Chapaill, Mullinahone (roll number 14181)
- Location:
- Poulacapple West, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Seán Ó h-Icidhe
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0560, Page 155
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- (continued from previous page)at night that they were creeping with poor souls.
- About the year 1800 Mr John Dunne was born in Poulacapple. In those days schoolmasters were very few, and school children on account of that had to travel a long distance to school. As well as being a schoolmaster he was a poet and an orator. He wrote many poems in connection with the Ormond family, also on local marriages and the "wren boys of the Sweep".
He was a fluent Irish speaker and wrote many of his poems in Irish. He was a man of quiet desposition. He was keenely interested in improving the Irish people in education which was sorely needed at the time. He taught school up to a very advanced aged. He wore a swallow-tail coat, a tall hat, and a knickers. He died in 1895 and was buried in Killamory grave-yard. - Informant
- Mrs Patrick Vaughan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Garryrickin, Co. Kilkenny
