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School: Mercy Convent, Granard (roll number 13846)

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    A Local Poet
    14th Feb; 1938
    The local poet that I know of in my district of Abbeylara, Co. Longford is Mr Wiliam Sheridan who is about 40 years of age, and lives in the townland of Aughnagarron, in the parish of Abbeylara, Co. Longford.
    He wrote a number of songs, and two of them are:-
    "An Exiles Lament," and "The Cloughernal Sports." Here are a few lines of "An Exiles Lament"
    " Tis down the Aughnagarron
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. poetry
        1. folk poetry (~9,504)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Rose Lynch
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    12
    Address
    Creevy, Co. Longford
    Informant
    Mr Thomas Lynch
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    47
    Address
    Creevy, Co. Longford