BRIDE AND MASKED MEN.
• A curious affaiir is reported from, the Ballinagleragh district of County Leitrim. A" voting man of the farming class breaking off , ail * engagement in order to marry, another-girl, the parish priest refused po'r : mission for the marriage, arid the bishop upheld his action. Eventually, however, the marriage took place at.a registry office. Oil the night the man brought his,brido home some thirty men, disguised with blackened faces and wearing crape, burst in. the door and called upon the father of the bride to tako his daughter home. The . demand was- acceded to, but the. bridegroom went with them. He'was, however, seized by a second ; group of masked men; roughly parted .from his bride," and compelled to return to his own house;
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 193, 9 May 1908, Page 11
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125BRIDE AND MASKED MEN. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 193, 9 May 1908, Page 11
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