Tag: Police
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Poteen Making – Chronicles 6
An Old Established Industry Vulgar legend has it that it was St. Patrick himself who first gave the Irish the wrinkle how to make poteen. A ribald rhymester of the last century hoped to perpetuate this foolish notion when be introduced it into a song which bad a pasting popularity and then followed its author…
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Medicine for Sick Greyhounds – Chronicles 5
One damp Wednesday morning the local district court was entertained by the prosecution of a man for possession of fifteen gallons of poteen. His excuse for this was that the poteen was kept as medicine, which he would give to his greyhounds whenever they were taken ill. Nonetheless, he faced a second charge of harbouring…
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Molly Maguire’s Abduction – Chronicles 2
One evening Sergeant Brennan was manning the front desk of the police station when an obviously irate and breathless Jimmy Lennon burst through the main door. “In the name of Jesus!” exclaimed the Sergeant. “Hold on, Sergeant, ‘til I catch my breath,” panted Jimmy. “By God, man dear, I thought you were going to take…
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The Chronicles
These are new stories brought to you by the team at ‘Ireland’s Lore and Tales’ My sabbatical is over and it’s time to get writing once again. The difference in these stories and recollections are that they are for the most part factual, taken from records with only names changed to protect the innocent. We…
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Biddy’s – How To Treat the Fairies
A Lesson Learned In Ireland it is customary for the people to treat the fairy folk to many little acts of kindness. One example of this occurs when a cow is milked, and care is taken to let the first couple of draws from the udder are permitted to drop upon the ground for the…
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The Stories of Seamus No. 5
Beggars This is a tale of Famine Ireland in a time when a Viceroy of the British crown ruled in Dublin and the peasant Irish were dying because they could not afford to eat. They called it a famine but there was plenty of food under British control and they refused to release it to…
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Black and Tans
Churchill’s Devils Posing for his portrait, to be sent home to show his family their ‘Hero’ Son….. What Irishman, woman or child shall we shoot dead, maim, or injure this day whether innocent of guilty? What town, village or farm shall we loot and bun to the ground? What fun shall we have…. We are…
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