School: An Corr Dubh (roll number 14339)
- Location:
- Corduff, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Pádraig Mac Giolla'n Átha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0226, Page 689
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- (continued from previous page)The nature of the goods shall not excuse.
The man who acts unfair.
Restitution must efface.
The wrongs that's done in war and place.
Perhaps you styled me as a fool.,
To say so much about this Cúl.
Then let the vessel be lent or lost.
Send me a shilling what it cost.
I say in this concluding line.
I want the vessel or the coin.
- It is a fitting thing to keep before the people the memory of our local poets. Most of our local poets were never rewarded for their talent. And many a pleasant evening was spent listening to their God-given gifts. As most of the local poets seem to cling to the memory of our old people, there is one you seldom hear mentioned. She lived in the Gurteen bottoms ; her name was Mary Murphy. She came from the west of Ireland. She talked Irish fluently, English not too well ; she never learned to write the English language. So all her poems and sayings were in Irish, that is why she is not more(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Lawrence O' Donnell
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 66
- Address
- Corriga, Co. Leitrim
