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School: Cill Srianáin (Jamestown) (roll number 1024)

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Jamestown, Co. Leitrim
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Bríd Ní Ghormáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0210, Page 517

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  1. An Old Song (continued)

    “My name is Patrick O'Donnell and I come from Donegal”

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    For wilful murder I was tried
    And "guilty' found at last
    The jury gave their verdict
    And the judge my sentence passed
    For the shooting of James Carey
    "Now my learned Judge did cry
    "On the 17th day of December,
    Patrick O Donnell you must die"
    And if I was a free man
    And to live another year
    All traitors and informers
    I would make them quake with fear
    As St Patrick drove the serpents
    From our sainted island ground
    I'd make them run before me
    Like the hare before the hound.
    So fare thee well, sweet Donegal
    The place where I was born
    And likewise the United States
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. poetry
        1. folk poetry (~9,504)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Betty Mulvey
    Gender
    Female
    Informant
    Patrick Donaher
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Clooneigh, Co. Roscommon