School: Gort na Carraige (Rockfield) (roll number 9009)

Location:
Knocknashangan, Co. Donegal
Teacher:
Nóra Nic Aodhagáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1029, Page 166

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1029, Page 166

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  1. Ireland was always famous for its bards and poets. There were not many poets in this part of the country. A famous poet called William Allingham lived in Ballyshannon. He composed many songs, some poetry and many ballads. He was born in Ballyshannon in 1842. The house where he was born is still to be seen in the Mall. He sent poems and stories to English magazines and at the age of twenty-six, a book of his poems was published. His best known poems are “The Winding Banks of Erne” “Four ducks On A Pond,” “The Fairies.”
    There are no poets in this locality, but as local man composed the following rhyme regarding a polish maker who lived in this townland:-
    Your shoes preserve,
    Your country serve,
    The unemployed abolish,
    Take in your brush,
    Sing like a thrush,
    And use Maguire’s polish.
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. poetry
        1. folk poetry (~9,504)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Annie Breslin
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Ballyshannon, Co. Donegal
    Informant
    James Breslin
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    c. 56
    Address
    Ballyshannon, Co. Donegal