School: Brosna (B.) (roll number 13018)

Location:
Brosna, Co. Kerry
Teacher:
Aonghus Ó Laochdha
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  1. Lines written by "Dick Nash", M.J. Murphey and B.J. Murphy. Brosna on a "night" given by a Kerry Moonlighter on his return home after 30 years absence in the U.S.A. The Moonlighter was B.M. Murphy familiarly known as Big Batt and the "At Home" as held in the old thatched cottage, the home of his boyhood days, at Ahane - the year 1902.
    The Lay.
    You may read of stately banquets
    In story and in song,
    In feudal Hall or mansion tall
    Where silken lordlings throng.
    We but tell in simple measure
    How we sang and danced till dawn
    When Yank Murphy stood the "racket".
    At his boyhood's home - Ahane.
    II
    Jim [?] got his concertina in line
    And boys and girls merrily
    Were dancing very soon,
    The music then grew loud and fast
    The fun grew fast likewise
    The old place rang in revelry
    Of simple rustic joys.
    III
    Dick Nash upon his fiddle [?]
    Sweet music well did play
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Aeneas Leahy
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Brosna, Co. Kerry
    Informant
    Thomas O' Connor
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    54
    Occupation
    Shoemaker
    Address
    Brosna, Co. Kerry