School: An Ráth Mhór (Clochar) (roll number 13742)
- Location:
- Rathmore, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Sr. M. Dolores
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0451, Page 229
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- (continued from previous page)Woe is me! in Hamburg is the lord of the gentle merry heroes
Aged, grey-browed eyes, bitterly weeping for each of these
Have cause me ever to have recourse to the Valentine BrownV
The feathers of the swift flocks that fly down the wind
Like the wretched fur of a cat on a waste pf heather
Cattle refuse to yield their milk to their calves
Since Valentine usurped the nights of the noble Mac CarthyVI
The feathers of the swift flocks that fly adown the wind
Wondering whither the Mars had gone whose departure brought us to death
Dwarfish churls pey[?] the sword of the three fates
Hacking the dead crosswise from head to footThe subject of this pathetic, if bitter poem, was Sir Valentine Brown the fifth baronet of that name and the third Viscount Kenmare. He was born in 1695. During his youth he was an outlaw owing to the attainder of his father
In November 1720 he married Honora Butler of Kilcash in the County of Tipperary who died of smallpox in 1730. He married secondly Mary daughter of Maurice Fitzgerald, Esq. of Castle Ishin in the County of Cork, the relict of Justin fifth Earl of Fingall. He died on 30th of June 1736. (See Archdalls "Lodge" vol vii, page 57.
From numerous allusions throughout his works both(continues on next page)
