School: Kilmactranny (roll number 6385)
- Location:
- Kilmactranny, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Cáit, Bean Uí Chasmháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0182, Page 087
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- (continued from previous page)In full his fate, I can't relate but they riddled him I'm told
They threw hand grenades so fast on him theyd time to explode
And when exhausted throwing bombs and unbolted rifles too.
They swung in action machine guns to prolong the whillolo
The people round Lake Arrow and the hills of Ballindoon
Were sure the green coats marched again to the rising of the moon
But early morn brought good news when by the break of day
Some short distance from the soldier's lodge the bleeding victim lay
Now they may boast about their airmen and their bomb proof lorry shields
Or when the Germans marched towards Paris how the Belgians held the field
But their firing shot and shrapnel or their spreading poisonous gas
Was only sport to the shelling caused at Drumdoe by an ass
- Informant
- Mr Tom Martin
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Fostragh, Co. Roscommon
