School: Tubbercurry (B.) (roll number 15574)
- Location:
- Tobercurry, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Peadar Mc Donagh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0171, Page 314
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- Erin's Flag
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Unroll Erin's flag! Fling its folds to the Breeze!
Let it float o'er the land, let it flash o'er the seas!
Lift it out of the dust - let it wave as of yore,
When its chiefs with their clans stood around it, and swore
That never! no! never! while God gave them life,
And the had an arm and a sword for the strife,
That never! no! never! that banner should yield
As long as the heart of a Celt was its shield;
While the land of a Celt had a weapon to wield,
And his last drop of blood was unshed on the field
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Lift it up! wave it high!. Tis as bright as of old!
Not a stain on its green not a blot on its gold;
Though the woes and the wrongs of three hundred long years
Have drenched Erin's Sunburst with blood and with tears!
Though the Clouds of oppression enshroud it in gloom.
And around it the thunders of tyranny boom.
Look aloft! Look aloft! Lo! the clouds drifting by;
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- Collector
- P. Mc Donagh
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Tobercurry, Co. Sligo
- Informant
- Miss A. Armstrong
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Tobercurry, Co. Sligo
