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1. Local Poets (continued)

   

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   "You have beat the best man on the soil".
   "You are a fighter of fame come tell me your name",
   I never was conquered before".
   "My name is Mc Donagh I lodge in
   Cloonshanna.
   Not far from the town of Kilmore".
   "But I have travelled the soil for many a mile.
   From Croagh Patrick to the Abbey of Conn.
   From Beelek to Dunmore and no one
   before.
   Stood Arthur Mc Donagh. "So long".

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   So the table was laid and a good dinner made.
   They shook hands like good friends
   on the spot.
   And from that very day, he ne'er passed the way.
   Without calling in to see his friend Watt.

   

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   Topics

   1. genre
      1. poetry
         1. folk poetry (~9,504)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Mamie Stritch

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Ballagh, Co. Roscommon