Scoil: Ardlow

Ar an leathanach seo

1. (gan teideal) (ar lean)

   “The following verses were written about the year 1824...”

   

   Roinn Roinn Postáil

   (ar lean ón leathanach roimhe)

   Then, let us, my friends be united
   In the side of the Seanrog so green.

   My brethren be calm, still and steady
   Act manly, courageous and true
   If occasion calls on you to be ready
   And fall on the merciless crew.
   Dire vengeance grime death and confusion
   May widely expand o'er the scene
   Of tyrants' foul blood in profusion
   That deluged the Shamrock so green.

   

   Tras-scríofa ag duine dár meitheal tras-scríbhneoirí deonacha.

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2. (gan teideal)

   “This poem was composed about the year 1827 about Daniel O'Connell.”

   

   Roinn Roinn Postáil

   This poem was composed about the year 1827 about Daniel O'Connell. He was a great admirer of the Liberator referred to by him as the son of an old woman, meaning the old country. During this period there were in the country what was known as "Pattymen". There lived near Moynalty an old man who was a woolcomber by trade. This man was disrespected by his "party" of giving away the secrets to his master who was a magistrate. He was taken out one night to a plantation where his ears were cut off by a sheep shears. This man was Mickly Dolan nicknamed afterwards "crabby Dolan" and the two man told off to perform the operation were Tom Smyth (Tom go) and Larry Donoghue both of Cloughbally. Dolan knew Smyth who was arrested but on

   (leanann ar an chéad leathanach eile)

   

   Tras-scríofa ag duine dár meitheal tras-scríbhneoirí deonacha.

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   Teanga

   Béarla

   Bailitheoir

   John Fitzsimmons

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   Fireann

   Seoladh

   Ardlow, Co. an Chabháin

   Faisnéiseoir

   Michael Meenagh

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   Fireann

   Aois

   c. 64

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   Baile an tSléibhe, Co. na Mí