School: Scoil na gCeithre Máighistrí, Dún na nGall (roll number 14247)
- Location:
- Copany, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Cathal Mag Fhionntaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1035, Page 316
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A Song (continued)
“You friends of truth and justice”
(continued from previous page)III
Though lodged within a dungeon cell
His spirits still were gay
He sang a sweeter song therein
To while the time away
he hoped and longed to meet his friends
And comrades one and all
And breath once more
Old freedom’s breath
In dead Old Donegal.IV
His conscience never felt remorse
For crime he never knew
No doubt he’d be aquitted
Had justice got its due
I hope its [sic] better as it is
With a Laurel honest brow
The blighting blast of tyranny
Can never reach him now.V
He died of Typhoid fever(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Adhamhnan Mag Fhionntaigh
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 13
- Informant
- Jerry Boyce
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Donegal, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Tom Travers
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- c. 60
- Address
- Drumadoney, Co. Donegal