School: Eslin (roll number 10026)
- Location:
- Droichead na hEislinne, Co. Liatroma
- Teacher: Pilib Mac Aonghusa
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- (continued from previous page)When Ireland was down trodden by British rule, there was always Irishmen who would not lie down & the blood thirsty English hounds spared no gold to have them captured, to relieve their feelings - torture them with physical force then march them to the gallis and hang them like a dog, however much they tortured the Irish, they did not break their spirit. John Bull was a Bulley, the greatest ever seen he held neath his crubinis this Isle of the Green. He geared at the path called the mear of [?] and he laughed like a lion when they could not be buried. But now that he struggling & on his last legs for the [?] of & despise Irish he begs
- Collector
- Pilib Mac Aonghusa
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Teacher
- Address
- Maothail, Co. Liatroma
- Informant
- Mrs Patrick Mc Guinness
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 80
- Occupation
- Farmer's wife
- Address
- Droim Thanaí, Co. Liatroma
