School: Béal an Átha Móir (B.)

Location:
Ballinamore, Co. Leitrim
Teacher:
Seán Ó Heslin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0225, Page 262

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    In famed Drumreilly on a barren hillside, some sterling peasants had to reside,
    With rack rents and landlords and deep oppression
    For long dreary years they had to abide.
    In '79 that year of disaster when floods and storms
    swept over the lands.
    It ruined our crops and left us unable to pay rent
    or our just demands.
    fast was the next demand,
    When the Sheriff came with his mighty power
    and expelled each tenant from his own dear land
    He came again with his oil and matches, with his
    bombs and bayonets and all outcast men,
    And without hesitation fear or mercy to burn all those houses he did begin.
    The cries and sobs of those widows and orphans
    When they saw their homesteads all in a blaze,
    It would send the heart of a human savage
    On those creatures for one moment to gaze,
    (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 Flood
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Ballinamore, Co. Leitrim