School: Mainistir Ó dTórna
- Location:
- Abbeydorney, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Mícheál Ó Ríoghbhardáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0413, Page 009
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- I
Welcome to me my Coat of Frieze.
More dear than gold I do thee prize
For thou wert sent across the foam
By a kind old friend in my Native home
A friend who loved me the truest
and best.
In that Fairy Green Island away in the West
A friend the most on earth I prize
Has sent thee to me my coat of Frieze
II
Of Irish thou hast been shorn,
By an Irish exile thou now art worn,
By an Irish woman thou wert spun,
The same who nursed me when I was young,(continues on next page)
