School: Gort Leitreach (roll number 15960)
- Location:
- Gortletteragh, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Seosamh Mac Cionnaith
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0214, Page 350
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- (continued from previous page)Seems now an accomplishment worthy of praise
The habits of people have got so much changed
That there's nothing so good as to look half-deranged
When the brutes of the field are let loose from their stakes
They cut many wild capers, frolicsomes and freaks
But a man that has reason and sense in his head
And that acts like a brute must be greatly misled
These acts, I imagine, are not very grand
In any refined, civilized or Christianized land.
It appeared the whole frolic was learned or borrowed
From lunatics embellished or something more horrid
So no matter what luminaries or chroniclers paint.
This land is no longer an Island of Saints.
So I saw to it that the half-set ear(?) that I conclude
The dance is both awkward, disgustful and rude
- Long ago in pagan Ireland the kings sent their sons to a magician in the North of Ireland to get them taught magic. At that time a king lived in Tara and he sent his son to this man.
Some time after the boy had gone he wrote to his father that he was being treated badly and that when recreation came the magician turned him into a hare and the other boys into hounds. He then sent the hare away and made the hounds follow it. When recreation was over the hare was naturally very tired.(continues on next page) - Collector
- Catherine Higgins
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 76
- Address
- Clooncose, Co. Leitrim
