School: Baile Mhic Dáibhid (Ballydevitte) (roll number 3854)

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   Many poems were written by the McGeevers, who lived in the Row, a street on the Killymard side of the river Esk, in a house now occupied by Mrs. Keenan. One of the poems they wrote was “the Hens’ Convention.”

   “The Hens’ Convention”
   Oh! They cackle of the home rule battle,
   That the hens created the other day,
   In Donegal at the Temperance Hall,
   They cocked their feathers for the coming fray
   They were cochin china,
   And black faced Dina,
   Ugly dorkings [?] from near and far,
   I [sic] And the warish hen down from Bony Glen,
   Made the rafters ring with the notes of war I [sic]
   Oh! wasn’t it cheering to hear them sneering
   At the monster egg that old “Glady” laid,
   He never will hatch it,
   Or we will dispatch it,
   And with a cackle, cackle the hens arrayed.

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   History Edit

   Topics

   1. genre
      1. poetry
         1. folk poetry (~9,504)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Una Begley

   Gender

   Female

   Age

   14

   Address

   Donegal, Co. Donegal

   Informant

   Bean Uí Closcaidh

   Relation

   Not a relative

   Gender

   Female

   Age

   65

   Occupation

   Bean phósta

   Address

   Donegal, Co. Donegal