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School: Clochar na Trócaire, Drangan (roll number 7232)

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Drangan, Co. Tipperary
Teacher:
An tSr. M. Gráinne
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0556, Page 274

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    Hallowe'en
    by a Drangan Boy.

    "Yes, let the rich deride, the proud disdain
    The simple pleasures of the lowly train;
    To me more clear, congenial to my heart,
    One native charm than all the glossy arts.
    - Goldsmith

    " Old Ireland of the streams! " of the fairy, ghost and phooka where are the native charms your immortal Goldy sung of ? If of hill and glade, and dell and mead they still remain; but if the native charms which characterised the merry makings and reunions of the peerless sons and daughters, ah me! much has passed away I fear, never to return. Thy flowery May eves are no longer heralded in by the song and dance on the village green, the garland-crowned May
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. events
      1. events (by time of year) (~11,476)
        1. Halloween (~934)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Teresa Walshe
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Magowry, Co. Tipperary