School: Roundwood
- Location:
- Roundwood, Co. Wicklow
- Teacher: Peadar Réamonn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0918, Page 052
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A Song
“This is a song that was composed by WF Duffy in France during the Great European War where he had not even a sporting chance of seeing the old hills again.”
This is a song that was composed by W J Duffy in France during the Great European War when he had not even a sporting chance of seeing the old hills again. But fortune favours the brave. Dame fortune smiled upon him and he came back, well, if not to shoot, to sout his ballad of love for the old maternal haunts in dear old Wicklow for many years after.The Pride of The Thirty-Two
I
There are thirty-two Counties in Ireland I know
But the one I love best is the Co, Wicklow;
Its peaks, and its passes, its Colleens so fair;
To my line of thinking, there's naught to compare.
II
Its Bouchals are pleasant light hearted and free,
Their moods, and their manners are well known to me
They boast not of riches, the're humble and plain
But God has endowed them with prudence and brain.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Liam Timmons
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Roundwood, Co. Wicklow
- Informant
- Mr W.J. Duffy
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Roundwood, Co. Wicklow