School: St Bridget's (roll number 13854)
- Location:
- Derrymore, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Máire Uí hOistín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0138D, Page 07_012
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- (continued from previous page)He asked the man to come home but the dancer made the same answer as he made that night twelve months. He asked him to come home again and he made the same answer. The man got up and caught the dancer and began pulling. The girl began pulling too but the man began daming and cursing and daming the dancer. The girl had to let go him. There were going home and the man told him that he was to be hanged. He told him that the child that was only born when he left home was walking now. He didn't believe he was so long away until he went home.
- Collector
- Seán M. C. Ó hOistín
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Ted Hastings
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Derrymore, Co. Mayo
