School: Baile Idir Dhá Abhainn (roll number 13196)
- Location:
- Riverstown, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Ml. Mac Lochlainn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0180, Page 128
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- (continued from previous page)They didnt care for human life
To spare the bullock's back"
A man named Peter Niland of Drumfinn wrote many poems, one finding fault with James Green. It was as follows,
"Jamesy Green he has no wit
To make a song he is not fit
And walking round he must keep silent
There is no poet here but Peter Niland
The answer is; he's like a wild hyaenna,
You'd swear that he was mad
He's one of the dilisk sellers
Down from Ballinafad."
- One of the local poets is Patrick Higgins of Ross. He is a farmer and(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Agnes Higgins
- Gender
- Female
