School: Clochar na Trócaire, Inis (roll number 7315)
- Location:
- Ennis, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Máire Ní Dhomhnalláin
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- (continued from previous page)not as skilled then as they are nowadays and there was no question of operating on him. They decided he was incurable.
At home in Moyreisk "Fireball" had a servant who was a simpleton. He was very much attached to his master and decided to go to Dublin to see him. There were not the same means of travelling then as now and the servant walked the whole way. When he reached the city he was hungry and bought a loaf of bread. He put it under his arm and enquired his way to the hospital; arrived there, he insisted on seeing his master and arrived into the ward eating the loaf of bread. When "Fireball" saw him he began to laugh and laughed so much that the tumour burst and he was cured.
Thus this love of his servant did more for him than all the science and skill of the doctors.
This same "Fireball" fought a Vinegar Hill in 1798.
Maud Milner,
4, O'Connell Villas,
Ennis
- Collector
- Maud Milner
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ennis, Co. Clare
