School: Tulach an Iarainn (roll number 1289)

Location:
Tallow, Co. Waterford
Teacher:
Eibhlín Ní Dhubhshláinge
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0638, Page 318

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  1. There lived in Tallow about 70 years ago a man named Willie Brennan who was a highwayman and robbed from the rich and gave it to the poor.
    One day he was lodging on an old woman's house and the soldiers came to arrest him. He hid himself in a heap of ferns in a corner of the house. They found him and on the way to jail he met his wife on the road. He asked her for a 'tuppenny' which was a gun and she gave it to him. He held up the soldiers and escaped. This is the song which was composed about this arrest.
    Willie's wife was in town
    Provisions for to buy
    When she saw her Willie taken
    She began to roar and cry
    Saying 'Where is your tenpenny,
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Joe Holland
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Tallow, Co. Waterford
    Informant
    Mr J. Holland
    Relation
    Unknown
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    50
    Address
    Tallow, Co. Waterford