School: Ballyvongane (Measctha)

Location:
Ballyvongane, Co. Cork
Teacher:
D. Ó Céilleachair
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0343, Page 069

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    With heroes who sleep on the hillside
    He lies neath the shamrock and sun.
    Tho' bowed with the weight of her sorrow,
    His mother is proud of her son.
    The "gunmen" done in" in the "scrapping"
    May be to a moment's pain wed.
    But the mothers, wives, sisters and sweethearts
    Must live with the ghosts of the dead.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
  2. Cornelius T. Aherne of Carrigthomas, Ballinagree, Aghinagh, composed many beautiful songs during his life-time. He died about sixty years ago at the early age of thirty.
    Many stories are told of how he got the gift of verse-making. Some say that in his early youth he slept by the bank of a river one night and waking in the morning found to his astonishment that he had acquired the gift of poetry in some mysterious manner. This, however, is untrue as his sisters and nephew were also able to compose.
    Among his many songs, and ballads, were, "The Praises of Macroom". The Praises of
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. poetry
        1. folk poetry (~9,504)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mary C. Cotter
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Leadawillin, Co. Cork
    Informant
    James Cotter
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    60
    Address
    Leadawillin, Co. Cork