School: Stormanstown, Ardee (roll number 9371)
- Location:
- Baile an Aird, Co. Lú
- Teacher: P. Ó Ceallaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0668, Page 158
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- (continued from previous page)Catholic, both lived in Reaghstown. The Boss had a healthy appetite. One morning at breakfast the bread was very limited in quantity. The Boss looked in disgust at the table.
"Is there no more bread?" he asked his wife.
"Sorra a bit," she replied. "Haven't you enough?"
"Enough be a d-d!" retorted the angry Boss. "Why, George Sturgess would get more for his Holy Communion!"
- Owen Breen, called "the ould Gó (Taba) because of his trade and because his son Pat worked with him, lived near Aclint School. In his old age he grew rather silly. One day he called in to John Callan's for a "crack" (chat). The conversation turned upon souls.
"I'm told, Callan," said Owen, that souls are so small that three of them could sit on your thumb nail."
"So I'm told, Owen", replied John.
"D- it, Callan", commented the meditative Go, "if they're no bigger than that, they're not worth saving!" - Informant
- Mrs Anne Callan
- Gender
- Female
