School: Borrisoleigh, Glenkeen (roll number 590)
- Location:
- Borrisoleigh, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Tomás de Búrca
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0544, Page 433
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- (continued from previous page)ancestors . The names of one of the songs were'I don't work for living' . THe only composed the song in English . These poets were not farmers. The local people welcomed them very much when they came. They often tryed to banish rats from a house by singing outdoors aloud they used to succeed in doing so . The songs are sung locally. There are no story told about them . The songs are still sang locally yet in every part of my district here.
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- Collector
- Harry Cummins
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cronavone, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Mrs Mary Ryan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 78
- Address
- Cronavone, Co. Tipperary
- They are men in our district in days long ago and they were able to make poems and songs. Their name was Tom Fahey and Mick Gleeson. They lived in the townsland of Castle hill . When they died they were eighty years of age . I do not know where they were buried . The song they made was 'I don't work for a living' They only composed the songs in English . They could read and write . The people(continues on next page)
