School: Cros-Bhóthar (roll number 14688)
- Location:
- Pollacorragune, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Seán Ó Maoláin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0039, Page 0027
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Song - Ballad
“This our share of the jubilee bounty”
This our share of the jubilee bounty
A measure, the vilest our land ever saw
Placing each one of our thirty-two counties
Under the scope of an infamous law
Will be submit to this act of atrocity
Will be crushed by this cowardly blow
Will we be frightened by Tory Ferocity
Ireland speaks out and her answer is no.
Dublin will stamp on it
Wicklow will tramp on it
Kerry will drag it about through the mire
Limerick batters it
Waterford tatters it
Wexford will bundle it into the fire
Antrim with hatred profound in rejecting it
Monaghan spurns it as violent unclean
Clare has no notion of ever respecting it
Sligo condemns it as odious and mean
Galway declares tisnt worth a bad penny
Roscommon salutes it with hiss and with groans
'Tis laughed at by Cork an despised by Kilkenny
'Tis slated and stoned by Armagh and Tyrone
Cavan lets fly at it
Louth takes a shy at it
Meath and westmeath in the sport took a share
King's County jeers at it(continues on next page)