School: Cloonmorris (roll number 12496)
- Location:
- Cloonmorris, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Michael J. Conboy
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0219, Page 142
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- (continued from previous page)Both men and manners there
IV
They tell me that high was heard
When I was young and gay.
Of lighting Freedom's sacred torch
As dreams have passed away.
V
By direful poverty distressed
I hear how one and all.
As serfs within a tyrants' grasp.
Bewail their cruel thrall.
VI
They say that her facetious son
Oft laugher did provoke.
Now crushed by sorrow's heavy hand
Scare recognise a joke.
VII
O, is it true that by the hearth
When they of valour tell,
No voice exulting e'er recall
Who for her fought and fell.
VIII
Hath she forgotten blood that flowed,
In many a fierce fray.
To save her from indignity
In dread oppression's day.
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- Collector
- Teresa Beirne
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Edercloon, Co. Longford
- Informant
- Coote Geelan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 69
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Cloonageeher, Co. Longford
