School: Doirín Dáimh Dheirg / Dereendafderg (roll number 13469)
- Location:
- Doire an Daimh Dheirg, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Liam Seóighe
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0090D, Page 13_053
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- (continued from previous page)to comfort him. "Never mind" she said I will send you a present and I hope it will bring you good luck. If it will you will be a lucky boy".After they had gone he helped his grandfather with wooden blocks for he was a picture-frame maker. He carved and decorated them with beautiful mountain flowors and he sold them in the big cities thus earning money for a living. Franz kept on wondering what his mother would send him, when at last a big parcel arrived and he was full of excitement. In the parcel was a blue velvet jacket trimmed with braid and fassened with glittering buttons such as the boys in town wore. In one of the pockets he found a new knife.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Seán Ó Luideánn
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Doire an Daimh Dheirg, Co. Mayo
