Scoil: Scoil na mBráthar, Doon (uimhir rolla 16713)

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1. Father Hickey's Cow Sold (ar lean)

   

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   on the roadside to give his horse a drink. He had scarcely pulled up when he was stunned by a deafening report & saw a cloud of smoke rising from the little grove behind him. Examination of the place later revealed the fragments of a blunderbuss which had burst & wounded the man who had concealed himself to shoot the parson. It was only when matters came to such tragic happening that Mr, Coote & his class were convinced of the intensity of popular feeling against the oppressive & unjust system they represented. A friend who visited him the following day says: "Never did I see a man more saddened & disappointed. 'I would not have believed it would ever come to this.' he said to me." The collection of tithes was abandoned. Even some of the landlords & their agents were in sympathy with the anti-tithe agitation. The government tardily brought in legislation to redress "one of Irelands many grievances."
   During the famine years soupers made a big effort to draw the distressed poor away from the faith. In this unholy work the received the support of bigoted Protestants in the parish

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