School: Ceathair Dhúin Iascaigh, Clochar na Trócaire
- Location:
- Caher, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: An tSr. M. Tréisín
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- (continued from previous page)not they tell me that she was coming. What else could they have against me ? All my life I never encroached in their fort, nor would I allow anyone else to touch it. That is how I lost my sight", said the old man, regretfully.
One may come to the conclusion that the old man was now in second childhood, and thought of the stories of his childhood days, told him by his kindly nurse. If such be the case, one can take pride in the culture of our race in hundred years ago, especially since we are told that the parents of the children of the wealthy, of to-day, employ, at a great expense, the best Artist Painters to depict scenes on the walls of their nurseries, similar to those, enjoyed by the old man, of his childhood recollections.- Informant
- Danny Fox
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballyboy West, Co. Tipperary