School: Slieverue (roll number 12476)

Teacher:
John Carey
Browse
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0844, Page 201

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0844, Page 201

Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.

See copyright details.

Download

Open data

Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

  1. XML School: Slieverue
  2. XML Page 201
  3. XML “Soldiers”

Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.

On this page

  1. (continued from previous page)
    "We don't want your dirty wine for we a , he hai ho, we don't want your dirty wine for we are Irish soldiers." The Romans would ask "We will set the tables grand for we sre he hai ho we will set the tables grand for we are Roman soldiers." "The Irish would say, "We will kick the tables down he haí ho we will kick the tables down for we are Irish soldiers". The Roman would say. "We will tell the police he hai ho, we will tell the new police for we are Roman soldiers" The Irish would then say, "we (will) don't care about the police he hai ho, we don't care about the police for we are Irish soldiers." The Romans would say, "We will the Civic Guards
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Birghis Adhrais
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Nicholastown, Co. Kilkenny
    Informant
    Peggy Robinson
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Slieveroe, Co. Kilkenny