School: Druim Mór
- Location:
- Dromore, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Seosamh Ó Catháin
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0167, Page 268
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- Daniel O Connell was a member of the British House of Commons.
One day, three Colonels, one Scotch, one English & one Irish, got up one after the other & abused Dan to their own satisfaction & to the satisfaction of other English members. When the third had finished Dan stood up & asked if he could reply & he was allowed. He replied in the following manner =
"The last three speakers remind me of three great poets, Homer of Greece, Virgil of Italy & Milton of England when are described in the following verse -
Three poets in three distant ages born Greece, Italy & England did adorn
The first in majesty of thought surpassed The next in grandeur & in both the last The force of nature could no further go And to make a third she joined the former two,
(I forgot to say that the Scotchman wore a beard & the other two were clean shaven)(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Seosamh Ó Catháin
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Múinteoir
- Address
- Dromore West, Co. Sligo
- Informant
- Mike Tiernan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 79
- Address
- Bellafarney, Co. Sligo
