School: Baile Mhic Dáibhid (Ballydevitte) (roll number 3854)
- Location:
- Ballydevitt Beg, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Cathal Mac an Luain
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1031, Page 327
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- (continued from previous page)A dorking [?] blue from Abbey View,
Next spoke with all her cackling,
Give me a rope to hang the Pope,
And all his priestly backing,
Free and easy but a little crasy [sic],
Jumped up a pea-hen from Holly hill,
It being the clocking season she lost her reason,
And picking wildly she smashed her bill.
A Dorking tall from near Brown Hall,
Proposed a resolution,
That Chapman’s pills would cure their ills,
And save their constitution,
Hike an April blast the motion passed,
They were not yet contented,
When the Blinking Clock,
From Doonan Rock,
Adjourned the Hens’ Convention.This poem was written about a meeting which was held by the principal members of the Protestant religion who protested against gladstone’s second home rule bill of eighteen hundred and ninty [sic] three. The members of the meeting represented the different species fowl.
- 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
