School: Stravicnabo
- Location:
- Stravicnabo, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Michael Kelly
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- (continued from previous page)with crooks, tongs, and sticks and if any of the hibs put in their head they would get it cut they forced the door but could not get in and one of the sinn Feinn men hit a man of the "hibs" with a crook on the head and cut it and somebody ran for the priest Fr Tom Brady and when he came in the morning the Sinn Feinn men would not let the priest in and when he heard about the fight he went home. When the fight began the girls rushed for the door and windows and men hid in under the beds and one man hid in a churn. The men that was under the bed stole a pot of rice and ate it. Then there was a song made called "Hylands dance".
- The years after 1916 republickinism was very low in Lavey. The Sinn Fein was down the leaders who were not(continues on next page)
- Collector
- John Sheridan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Moher, Co. Cavan
