School: Ardlow
- Location:
- Ardlow, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: S. Mac Síomain
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1004, Page 098
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- (continued from previous page)Some brighter assailants did terror reform
And rave out their nonsense in the lying meal
But after a calm there comes always a storm
Such fictions and falsehoods shall never prevail
'Tis known these past ages how we've been treated
And Grattan declared with the heart of a lion
The wrongs of his country he loudly repeated
And bigots gave way on the Banks of the Boyne.
- The poet dreamt a dream one night that he entered the awful regions of Eternity and saw Pluto there holding a long pitch-fork in his hand. The mighty rebel said "you are welcome man, to my kingdom. You shall not or will not be molested". Then he entered into a long conversation with the author who described his visit in the following lines:-I
One night I dreamt I entered Hell
That scene was dark and dreary
Twice I slipped and once I fell
The place was so contrary.(continues on next page) - Collector
- John Fitzsimmons
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ardlow, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Michael Meenagh
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- c. 64
- Address
- Ballintlieve, Co. Meath
