School: Keelagh
- Location:
- Keelagh, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Ellen Reilly
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1025, Page 182
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- Oh father dear I often hear you speak of Erin's Isle.
It seems so bright and beautiful so rich and rare the soil.
They say it is a lovely land wherein a prince might dwell
And why did you abandon it the reason to me tell
II
My boy! I love my native land with fervour and with pride,
Its lofty scenes its valleys green its mountains rude and wide,
Its there I lived in boyhood years and toiled in manhood's prime
Never dreaming that my days would end in a far foreign clime.
III
But oh! the blight came o'er my crops, my sheep and cattle died,
The rent ran due, and taxes too, I ne'er could then supply,
The landlord turned me from my cot where born I had been
And that's my boy the reason why I left poor Scibereen.
- Collector
- Bridget Mc Donald
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Claragh, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- John Brady
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Treehoo, Co. Cavan
