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Seaghan's sister, who still clung to religion, loosed the priest, and he fled, passing Seaghan, who was on his way to fetch the soldiers. Seaghan followed after, and on they went like hare and hound till they got to the abbey. There the priest, who could run no further, turned on his foe, and they fought until the priest got hold of Seaghan's knife and killed him with it. 'But you know the story.
The schoolmaster tells me that when he reads out the roll in the morning the children repeat the local name all together in a whisper after each official name, and then the child answers. If he calls, for instance, 'Patrick O'Flaharty, the children murmur, 'Patch Seaghan Dearg' or some such name, and the boy answers. People who come to the island are treated in much the same way.
And the priests stopped at the grave of Seaghan na Soggarth, or 'John of the Priests, and Father Oliver told Father Moran how a young priest, who had lost his way in the mountains, had fallen in with Seaghan na Soggarth. Seaghan offered to put him into the right road, but instead of doing so he led him to his house, and closed the door on him, and left him there tied hand and foot.
Why am I telling it to you? 'I only know that the priest killed Seaghan. Is there any more of it? 'Yes, there is more.
Sometimes when the father's name does not lend itself, the mother's Christian name is adopted as epithet for the children. An old woman near this cottage is called 'Peggeen, and her sons are 'Patch Pheggeen, 'Seaghan Pheggeen, etc.
Head of the court, of the jury, of the meeting, And the counsellors not the worse for having you. At the end of your days death, and then Hiding away; the boards and the church. What are you better after to-night Than Ned the beggar or Seaghan the fool? Forgaill's Praise of Columcille
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