School: Cill Liath (roll number 8696)
- Location:
- Killeagh, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Mícheál Ó Murchadha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0396, Page 278
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- A man named Pádraig Pearse Condon lived in Shanakiel Ballymacoda. He was a great friend of my Granduncle, and he lived near him. In the year 1826 he emigrated to America, and he wrote several letters home telling about the lives of the people and about the climate and the wild animals that were to be found there. His most famous poem was one written as a poetical letter to my Grand-Uncle.
Filidheacht(I)Cuirimse thruibhse an am go fodhla
Slán is ceud idhir Gaoltha is cómsráin
Cia na fheichid aon duine go deo dhíobh
Ní leighfidh as mo aighne marbh nú beó sibh.
(II)Mo deargh dhearch, mo chreach, mo scoladh
Gan mbéith sa bhaile go cleathaís mo óige
I dtuaith, i gcáthair, in aiche ar a gcómhgar
Nú tabhairne na leanmha i mBaile-Mac-Óda(?)
(III)A bhochair ó Glásáin, atá óirdigin
Greamar casainig, cartháinig, chomhraich
Tugtar dom fian gan mhaomh mo ndóithin(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Eileen Kennedy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Killeagh, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Richard Gleeson
- Relation
- Grandparent
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Finisk, Co. Cork
