School: Mullach na Sídhe (C.) (roll number 15426)
- Location:
- Fairymount, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Bean Uí Dhubhthaigh
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0239, Page 225
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- Seán mc Gowan a young boy about 24 years of Portahard, he faught against the Black and Tans. One night he slept in Patrick Dyers Rathkeery. In the middle of the night the Black and Tans surrounded the house. A [struck out: "house"] spy had told on him. They asked if he was inside Then they broke in the door and went to the room where he was sleeping. They dragged him from his bed, then the tortured to see could they make him. They failed and then they shot him dead. He asked for the priest they gave him a blow of a gun in the mouth and knocked his teeth down his stomack. The week be fore Christmas 1920 he was killed "God rest his soul." The folling song was [struck out: "cope"] composed shortly after his death
Song
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In times of storm and peril
Thats happily now gone by
When the best of Irelands men
Was not afraid to die
It was then there lived in Portahard(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Treasa Ni Flionn
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cloggarnagh, Co. Roscommon
