School: Coillte Críotáin
- Location:
- Erris, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Nóra Nic Aodhgáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0236, Page 426
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A Local Song (continued)
“It was on the twenty day of December”
(continued from previous page)And yet there's nothing fighting for
Liek the gallant Irish race
It will burst like sunshine
to the rest
And joys to they will bring.
And Irish boys on that night recalled
Poor exiled Irish men.The following song was composed by Pat Stynes an exile in Australia who sent it to his sister is St. Patrick's Street, Boyle: The Plains of Boyle.
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Farewell to Boyle, to lakes and all
A Local Song
“Farewell to Boyle, to lakes and all”
The following song was composed by Pat Hynes an exile in Australia who sent it to his sister is St. Patrick's Street, Boyle; The Plains of Boyle.
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Farewell to Boyle, to lakes and all(continues on next page) - Collector
- Mary Tivenan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cornaglia, Co. Roscommon