School: Baile Idir Dhá Abhainn (roll number 13196)

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1. Local Poets

   

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   Several people in this district can write poetry some perhaps better than others and strange to say a great number of them do not care about publishing what the write. One of the best of the local poets whose poems were made public is Patrick Higgins of Ross. He wrote several poems one being "The death of John Stenson" as follows.
   On the 29th October 1908
   On a grazing ranch at Riverstown
   John Stenson met his fate
   He little dreamt his days were spent
   When entering the field
   Until his comrades and himself
   Were quickly forced to yield.
   The murderer who shot him
   He surely took his aim
   Poor Stenson stood in range of him
   And was shot right through the brain
   The blood hounds were so thirsty
   Their bullets showed no lack

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   Topics

   1. genre
      1. poetry
         1. folk poetry (~9,504)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Chris Taheny

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Riverstown, Co. Sligo