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1. Father Clowry (continued)

   

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   nefarious conduct I may mention that during a drunken revel the three younger brothers tied Redmond "to" a chair and burnt out his eye with the reddened knob of the thongs. On such occasions they often broke all the delph and smashed all the woodwork in the house and were even accused of highway robbery robbery and made more than one attack on the Castle when I was a child.
   Richard Purser or Purcell, son of the murderer, was a decent and sober easygoing man; exemplary character and a good neighbour, but his wife was a "tartar". She instituted a novel regime by wh. breakfast was served for all hands at daybreak, dinner at about 10 a.m and supper at 4pm. No wonder the apprentices and the journeymen did not stay long with "Boss-oh". I remember one poor journeyman complained bitterly to me that when he came home from Mass after receiving a plate of "hairy mate and cabbage" was laid forninst him instead of his breakfast. And of course the hairy meat was a piece of the American "lad".
   Richard Purser Jnr was the only issue of this ill-assorted pair. He was a bit of a molly at best of times and associated with no one. He was sent to high school (Protestant) Carlow at the time I was attending the Academy there. We were the first two in the parish to ride bicycles and to wear spectacles and as for books we carried a library

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   History Edit

   Date

   1908

   Item type

   Lore

   Language

   Béarla

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Roman script

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