School: Coill Sailighe (roll number 4855)
- Location:
- Kilsallagh, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Máiréad, Bean Uí Ghiobáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0138, Page 274
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A Song (continued)
“In Bodens town bhurch yard”
(continued from previous page)And they stopped when they came to the grave of Wolfe Tone. There were students peasants the wise and the brave. And an old man who knew him from the cradle to grave.
The old man who saw them weeping there said
We came here to weep where your Wolfe Tone is laidV
We came for to raise him a monument to a plain
One yet fit for the simple and true
His heart over flowed and I shook his old hand
I blessed him and blessed every one of his band.
Sweet sweet is to find that such faith can remain
For the cause of the cause of the man so long vanished and slain
In Bordens town Church yard there is a green grave
And freely along it does Winter(continues on next page)
- Collector
- John Gannon
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Kilsallagh Lower, Co. Mayo