School: Cill Fhínghín (roll number 16222)

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1. The Loughman Brothers

   

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   The following is a poem composed of the Loughman Brothers and the cruel death they got from the "Black and Tans".
   (I)
   The winter's winds blew wildly,
   On a cold December's night.
   The sad news reached Kinvara
   of a mournful tradgic sight.
   (II)
   It was the finding of two brothers.
   Their cold corpses side by side,
   Far from their loving mother
   These heroic brothers died.
   (III)
   They were captured by the enemy
   As they threshed their mother's corn.
   They came back again cold corpses,
   To where they were bred and born.
   (IV)
   They were taken in a lorry,
   By an auxillary escort.
   From their native Shanaglish
   Three miles south west of Gort.
   (V)
   They were dragged behind a lorry
   For three long miles and o'er

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   History Edit

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Andrew Feeney

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Lavally, Co. Galway

   Informant

   Thomas Forde

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Caheradine, Co. Galway