School: Achadh Bolg (roll number 3588)
- Location:
- Aghabullogue, Co. Cork
- Teacher: (name not given)
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0343, Page 372
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- (continued from previous page)it soon started,
And I promised to meet her one evening quite soon.The above song was composed by John Cronin about twenty five years ago when the above match was played in Coachford for the repairs of the Aghabullogue school.
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Kind friends and neighbours, please pay attention.
To a bit of poetry which breaks my heart.
Iv'e dwelt among you those twenty-two years.
I am feeling lonely, we now must part.
To a foreign shore I am bound to travel,
To seek a fortune while in my bloom.
But if God will spare me, I'll soon return to the friends and neighbours of Knocknagown.
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It is hard to part with the dear old homestead,
But whats alotted we must go through.
And harder still to leave behind me, my friends relations and parents too.(continues on next page)
