Volume: CBÉ 0481 (Part 1)

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1. The Battle of Hacketstown (continued)

   

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   given in Bealoidear of Christmas 1935. The narrative was taken down by Pádraigh Ó Tuathail of Hacketstown, from a splendid old lady recently dead, who was born in 1849, and got her vivid tales from her grandfather Larry Byrne a leader in the Insurrection.
   During the Battle of Hacketstown where Billy Byrne led the insurgents, the old men, and the girls, and the children who were hardy enough started the Rosery at home in Ballymanus, and they never left their knees during the battle period; one of them handed the prayer book to another, when they would be tired or weary over it, and they kept on their prayers until the cannon ceased. Then they got on their feet, and they waited for no dinner, or refreshments.

   

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   History Edit

   Date

   Aibreán 1938

   Item type

   Lore

   Language

   Béarla

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Roman script

   Location

   Baile Haicéid, Co. Cheatharlach

   Informant

   • Kate Dwyer