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Barretts. He eloped with and married Nancy
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he "turned out" with other rebels. According to local lore he served as pikeman with the French when they put to flight a much large force of loyalist militia in the so-called
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a mock lament for a landlord's bailiff, and "Preab san Ól", a drinking song which is said to sum up "his merry philosophy of life". He was among the
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who survived their French-assisted insurrection in August 1798. Bairéad wrote in both Irish and
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