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School: Bouleenshere (B.), Baile Thaidhg, Tráighlí (roll number 12864)

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Booleenshare, Co. Kerry
Teacher:
Jeremiah M. Healy
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0417, Page 347

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    Dear brother
    I hope you will excuse me for delaying to write so long.
    And while I am at leisure I will compose a song.
    Among those lads and lasies great changes I have seen.
    Since I left my happy birthplace old charming Beencuineen.
    II
    It was at the fair of Causeway many a pleasant day I spent.
    And now I am so far away, but I must be content.
    It was in April '63 on board the European.
    I bid farewell to Causeway and like-wise to Beencuineen.
    III
    I often walked by that spring well where runs the water spout.
    Around to Poll na thairve where the tide rolles in and out
    I often romed along the strands
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. poetry
        1. folk poetry (~9,504)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Timmy Bunce
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Dirtane, Co. Kerry
    Informant
    Philip Bunce
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Dirtane, Co. Kerry