Volume: CBÉ 0189

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1. Pat Reilly - The Camross Poet

   

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   Pat Rielly died only a short time ago. He used compose ryhmes for the Mummers, and acted the fool in a Mumming Set in Camross for a long time.
   In every Mumming set there is a Darby and a Judy (a fool and an Óinseach)
   The following is the Verse composed by Pat:-
   Here I am a Judy's man, a beggarman of fame
   I was born early wan evening and Darby is my name
   I happened on Ould Judy at the Hill of Ráithín na h-Uan
   And we landed at Joss Taylor's by the Rising of the Moon.

   We reared a great big set of boys and they were fond of fun
   And between myself and Judy we taught them how to mum

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   Item type

   Lore

   Language

   English

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Roman script

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   • James Carroll