Callan (Johnny B)
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Consumption, actually.
The galloping kind.
And that's a bit of a variety.
In fact, a death that wasn't perishing was considered good fortune for it.
What sort of fortune would they have?
That they might actually leave the parish before they withered and died in their forties?
This is depressing.
None of these families ever left.
the area we have seven generations of your lot in Roscrae some of them lived in a one-bedroomed tree and then what a perishing festival or a merciful death by steam threshing no in fact the last of them was sent into care it's terrible still at least the nuns looked after the poor craters yeah
No, they were sent into Caer, County Tipperary.
What about my family, Suzanne?
It's the same family.
You're saying me and Johnny B are related?
Well, it really isn't.
The average Irish muck savage has 14,000 living relatives up to eight cousins.