School: Cnoc Breac
- Location:
- New Inn, Co. Galway
- Teacher: M. Ó Maoldúin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0045, Page 0272
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“Farewell to call winter, Summer come at last,”
(continued from previous page)III.
He wrote to me a letter,
Saying he was awful bad,
I sent him back an answer
Saying I was awful glad,
He wrote to me another,
Saying he was well and strong
But I heard no more about him,
Than the Grannie walked upon
IV
He can go to his old mother now,
And set his mind at ease,
For I hear she is an old woman,
And very hard to please,
It is striking me and talking ill,
Of it is what she has always done
Because that I have been courting,
Her great big ugly son.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Naughton
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- New Inn, Co. Galway
- Informant
- James Glennon
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 45
- Address
- New Inn, Co. Galway