School: Tíréaltan, Maghcromtha (roll number 13286)

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1. Local Songs (continued)

   “Of all the good fellows I ere was amoung”

   

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   For some that we saw there, had faces as pale
   As if there were standing in Josephat's vale

   No attempt to remain did he make at Cloolcower
   For his home he beheld sure near Beamish's tower
   And all that he gained in that desperate chase
   Was to tread never more in his own native place

   Many times more on that day do I think
   And many times more to its memory Ill drink
   For surely before this such pace was never excelled in a fox hunting chase.
   The above poem was composed

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   Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.

   History Edit

   Topics

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

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Kitty Holland

   Gender

   Female

   Informant

   John Fitzgerald

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Poulanargid, Co. Cork