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School: Richmond (roll number 14400)

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Richmond, Co. Mayo
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Pádraig Mac Giollarnáth
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0152, Page 108

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    IV
    For years they have toiled in the land of the stranger,
    Their hearts always set on their own native home,
    And longed for the day when again they'd return
    And oft cursed the tyrant who forced them to roam.
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    I
    Many thanks for you letter and wishes sincere,
    I am glad you were pleased with my rebus last year,
    On Moore's brilliant pages that famed book of song,
    Depicting the scenes by the Deel and Lough Conn,
    These places you travelled when but a mere boy,
    From Cloughane to Cloone, from the Deel to
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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. poetry
        1. folk poetry (~9,504)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mary Elizabeth Herbert
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Ballinlabaun, Co. Mayo