School: Scoil na mBráthar, Calainn

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1. Old Songs (continued)

   “As a batch of peelers went out wan night”

   

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   Peeler. It is in rain for to complain, Or give your tongue such bridle, O, You're absent from your dwelling place Desordherly and idle, O, You hoary locks will not prevail Nor your subline oration, O, For peelers act will you transport By your own information, O. Goat No penal laws did It thransgress Bu dee or combination, O, I have no certain place or rest Here is my dwellin place, Where I was bread and

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   Topics

   1. genre
      1. poetry
         1. folk poetry (~9,504)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Eibhlín Ní Liatháin

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Baunta, Co. Kilkenny