School: Teampull Dubhglaise (roll number 6968)
- Location:
- Drumbologe, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Seán C. Ó Dómhnaill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1083, Page 148
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- (continued from previous page)tree trunk or cut turf in the bog and you kept the fire of the nation burning without a tax in money on every cheering flame.
Beside the woodfire or the turf what were the right tales to tell?
Pray you sit by us and tell us a tale
Merry or sad shall it be
As merry as you will
A sad tales best for winter
I have one of the spirits and gobbins. There was a man dwelt by the church-yard that is Liam Shakespeare judge-ment that a winter's tale should be a sad one I suppose that he meant that when you are warm and merry it is time to think of sad things and endure them.
- Another poet had a different notion he wanted cheery stories when the wind was howling - Folk say, a wizard to a nothern king at Christmas tide such wonderous things did show.
That through one window men beheld the Spring. And through another saw the(continues on next page) - Collector
- Rose Agnes Kelly
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 12
- Address
- Fahykeen, Co. Donegal
