School: Bouleenshere (C.) (roll number 12865)
- Location:
- Booleenshare, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Mary A. Walsh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0417, Page 518
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- While we have no good poems all round, there are rhymes made such as these. When Kerry and Wexford were playing football there was a song made about it:
"Leawlor then was on the ball, a man of might and grit;
He made a clearance through the field and then he found the net;
The cheering was tremendous, such cheers were never known,
Since Sarsfield called the Leawlors to his aid at Garryowen".
Another piece of poetry was about a fish - man and two other boys who were going to buy his pony and who fought him.
"Ye all know Davey Tobin, that travels the world wide,
With herrings and fresh mackerels that come in with the tide;
When his fish he can't sell he then lays down a rule,
An' he going the road he would sell the ass or mule. Once he met two bonny boys,
And to a bargain they went.
In a moment they fought, and to the(continues on next page)
- Informant
- James Drury
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 65
- Address
- Glenderry, Co. Kerry
