School: Mulrankin
- Location:
- Mulrankin, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Peadar Ó Broin
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0877, Page 179
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Mulrankin
- XML Page 179
- XML “Local Poets”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- Joe Sutton lived in Mulrankin Bridgetown Co Wexford. He was called the Poet Sutton because he made many poem's. He coud make a poem about a man if he saw him passing by. Here is a poem he made about his own ass.Joe Sutton's ass is fond of grass
My park has been lately sowed
And gentlemen I'll do my best
To keep my ass off the road.He was a very witty man and when he was caught by the police he was able to make poem's and then he was let free again. When the police caught him for having his ass on the road he made this poem and then he was let off.
- Collector
- Martin Connick
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Bridgetown, Co. Wexford
- Informant
- Ben Sutton
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 64
- Address
- Mulrankin, Co. Wexford
