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School: Clonoulty (roll number 578)

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Clonoulty, Co. Tipperary
Teacher:
Timothy Gleeson
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0584, Page 045

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  1. Advertisement for the Hibernian Manure Company

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    Advertisement for the Hibernian Manure Co.
    By Michael Mahon
    The Hibernian Manure offered a prize of two guineas in open competition for the best advertisment for their manures. Michael Mahon, the local poet and a cooper by trade, was a competitor and after keen competition was declared the winner The setting for his pieces of poetry was a farmer's haggard in which the farmer was industriously working and a stranger who
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. poetry
        1. folk poetry (~9,504)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Kitty Shea
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Milltown, Co. Tipperary