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The spelling appears to be partly phonetic. 'Ar hlitir, ta aharú mór tagaihe ar an saol ó'n géad la go vaca solus an lae, breis is deih mliana ar trí fihid ó sin'.
Reference:
U271/A/2/011
Date:
Dec 1953
Title: MS. in Irish 'Mar is Cuimhin Liom'. De Róiste's draft account of his earlier years using the Irish language. In old Irish script. Possibly intended to be a chapter in a memoir. Level: Item Extent: 4pp Part of: U271/A/2 Scope and Content: 'Ar Shlighthibh, ta athrú mór tagaithe ar an saoghal ó rugadh mé, breis is deich mbliana ar thrí ficid ó shin. An Shightibh eile, ta daoine mar a bíodar: cuid acu bocht, cuid acu saidhbir, cuid acu aineolach, cuid acu léitheanta, daoine cliste, daoine símplí, leabhaí ag teacht ar an saoghal agus sean daoine ag faghail bhais....'.
Reference:
U271/A/2/012
Date:
nd [1915]
Title: MS. notes/recollections by Liam de Róiste on the life and death of Fenian leader O’Donovan Rossa. Recounts Rossa’s visit to Cork in Nov. 1904, his storytelling, use of the Irish language. Level: Item Extent: 4pp Part of: U271/A/2 Scope and Content:
Reference:
U271/A/2/013
Date:
4 Aug 1915 [1940s-1950s]
Title: Level:
MS. essay/memoir/journal extract by Liam de Róiste 'Mar is Cuimhin Liom'.
Item
Extent: Part of:
7pp
U271/A/2
Scope and Content: Possibly extracts from his journal. Recounts a 1915 trip to Macroom with his wife Nora and various events and matters concerning nationalists in Cork and across Ireland. Terence MacSwiney was in Ballingeary, and they took a walk together to visit Sean O'Hegarty and his wife at Tuirindubh. Sean has been well watched by the police of the district. Father Matt Ryan of Dundrum, Co. Tipperary was there also, he was known as 'The General' from Land League days and was attending Munster college at Ballingeary. Also, there was Father Dominic who was later Terence MacSwiney's chaplain. Refers to policies of British Government, visit of Lord Lieutenant Wimborne to Cork with protests by JJ Walsh, deportations, war news, American newspapers from Diarmaid Fawsitt, re-appointment as
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