School: Cill an Daingin
- Location:
- Coill an Daingin, Co. Thiobraid Árann
- Teacher: Tomás Mac Domhnaill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0533, Page 440
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- (continued from previous page)outstripped competition. He was stubborn and morose; and subject to furious outbursts of passion. His brother, alone, could change his most wayward mood to a seeming tranquility. From him he feared no rivalry in his hazardous and reckless career, for in him he beheld a gentle and high-souled being that looked up to him more for protection than competition - were not his brother and he twins? And though he never saw his mother, was not O'Kennedy said to be her striking resemblance? And was this not a powerful chain to link him, if possible, still closer to the unassuming child of genius?
Thus grew the youths to the years of maturity, one the admiration and the other the terror of the surrounding country. They had scarcely completed their 20th year when their father died suddenly. On the day of his death O'Kennedy O'Brien was at Holy Island and O'Brien O'Brien was on a fishing excursion on the Connaught shore.
Some time previous to his death Gerald O'Brien made a will to the following effect:-
"Dromineer Castle and the adjoining tract of land were to be the joint property of the two brothers,(continues on next page)
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- Sarra Hogan
- Gender
- Female
