School: Béal an Átha Móir (B.)

Location:
Ballinamore, Co. Leitrim
Teacher:
Seán Ó Heslin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0225, Page 154

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  1. Orangemen from Leitrim, and the surrounding counties, assembled at Ballinamore for an Orange walk on the 12th. July 1826. Catholics from the neighbourhood were hurriedly assembled to stop the display. They came from the bogs and the meadows where they had been working, some barefooted and bareheaded, with whatever weapons they could procure. The P.P Fr Hugh Cassidy was then living in Ardrum House, now occupied by Mr. Francis Prior, Contractor. This house was was an object of a special attack by the Orangemen. The priest kept reading during the whole battle, (if it deserves that name), and no catholic was killed. Orangemen never attempted to walk through B'more on the 12th. July since 1826.
    The following is an attempt by ''Mickey the Rhymer (Michael McGovern, from near Curnabania,) to commemorate the event in verse.
    Ye gallant sons of Erin's Isle, I hope ye will draw near,
    And likewise pay attention to these few lines I've here,
    Concerning bloody Orangemen, how they called out their corps
    To murder Roman Catholics one side of Ballinamore.
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. poetry
        1. folk poetry (~9,504)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Seán Ó h-Eslin
    Gender
    Male
    Informant
    George Martin
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Drumcroman, Co. Leitrim